Biglerville El Sch

Biglerville El Sch, a reasonably sized elementary campus in Biglerville, Pennsylvania, run under Upper Adams SD, instructs 421 students, covering grades K through 3.

Across the 4 schools in Upper Adams SD (1,559 students total), Biglerville El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Biglerville El Sch logs that White students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder comes out to 32% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the resource side, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Adams County's rate of about 47%.

After controlling for student poverty, Biglerville El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Adams County shows median household earnings sit near $84,092, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Adams County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students), of which Biglerville El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Biglerville HS, around 1.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Biglerville El Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

Biglerville El Sch operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Biglerville El Sch's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 505 (now 421). Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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