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Bermudian Springs El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bermudian Springs El Sch
Bermudian Springs El Sch, a reasonably sized primary school in York Springs, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Bermudian Springs SD, caters to 587 students, covering grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Bermudian Springs El Sch sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 3 schools in Bermudian Springs SD (1,702 students total), Bermudian Springs El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Bermudian Springs El Sch shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bermudian Springs El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.1%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Adams County indicate median household income runs about $84,092, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Adams County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students), Bermudian Springs El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Bermudian Springs MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bermudian Springs El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 53.4%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 698 students in 2018 compared to 587 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 17% to 10%.
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