Brecknock El Sch

Brecknock El Sch is an average-sized elementary school in Denver, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Eastern Lancaster County SD. The school teaches 441 students in grades K through 6.

Eastern Lancaster County SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,568 students; Brecknock El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Brecknock El Sch shows that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Brecknock El Sch has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Brecknock El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 41% of students at Brecknock El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lancaster County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brecknock El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lancaster County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,959, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Lancaster County runs 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), of which Brecknock El Sch is one.

Adamstown El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brecknock El Sch comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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