Enrollment
239
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MECHANICSBURG AREA SD·NCES 421503001709
Broad Street Elementary School
200 S Broad St, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 · (717) 691-4574 · Cumberland County
GRADES 01–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL239 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
107 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 81 | 34% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 32% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 34% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Mechanicsburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
67.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
64.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.9% | 64.1% |
| 2023-24 | 68.9% | 66.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Broad Street Elementary School
Broad Street Elementary School's state test result (66.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Street Elementary School this school | 239 | 44.8% | 66.8% |
| Kindergarten Academy Prospect Park | 245 | 46.1% | N/A |
| Fallsington Elementary School Fallsington | 256 | 42.6% | 74.2% |
| Kindergarten Academy Mechanicsburg | 321 | 44.2% | N/A |
| Shepherdstown Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 283 | 35.0% | 63.9% |
| York Haven Elementary School York Haven | 293 | 53.9% | 82.4% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Broad Street Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #393 of 1,396 | #10 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #420 of 1,511 ▼ 97 | #9 of 34 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.9% | #244 of 1,511 ▲ 123 | #5 of 34 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 239 | #1,435 of 1,638 | #32 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #958 of 1,528 | #15 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.4% | #432 of 1,531 | #19 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.8% | #1,083 of 1,600 | #18 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
239
+8 (+3%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 280
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 13.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 239 | 17.6 | 13.6:1 | 45% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 219 | 16.7 | 13.1:1 | 49% (107) |
| 2022-23 | 202 | 15 | 13.5:1 | 44% (88) |
| 2020-21 | 231 | 17 | 13.6:1 | 32% (74) |
| 2017-18 | 239 | 17.1 | 14.0:1 | 35% (84) |
| 2015-16 | 215 | 17 | 12.7:1 | 35% (76) |
| 2010-11 | 226 | 15 | 15.1:1 | 29% (65) |
| 2000-01 | 317 | 15 | 21.1:1 | 9% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 280 | 14 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Broad Street Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (239 to 239); teachers up 3% (17.1 to 17.6).
About Broad Street Elementary School
Broad Street Elementary School is a small elementary school in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, (ZIP code 17055). The school had 239 students in grades 1 through 3 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Pennsylvania) has about 443 students.
The 8 schools in Mechanicsburg Area SD enroll 4,621 students altogether, Broad Street Elementary School among them.
Broad Street Elementary School is 64% White by enrollment. The remaining students are 11% Black, 8% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 7% multiracial. Among people living in Cumberland County, the White share is about 82%. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 17.6 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 13.6:1. That is close to the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Eligible students account for 45% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program.
Broad Street Elementary School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 72% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Broad Street Elementary School is +8.3 points: 66.8% actual, 58.4% predicted.
Census estimates describe Cumberland County this way: the median household income is $87,494, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. In all, Cumberland County has 57 public schools and roughly 33,044 students.
Nearest public school: Mechanicsburg Area SHS, about 0.2 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Broad Street Elementary School at 3rd of 8.
The federal government classifies Broad Street Elementary School's location as Suburb: Large.
The school enrolled 239 students in 2024-25, 8 more than the 231 it had in 2020-21.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
268,323
Census ACS
Median income
$87,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
33,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mechanicsburg Area SD
- Mechanicsburg Area SHSHigh · 1,412 students
- Mechanicsburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Elmwood AcademyElementary · 712 students
- Kindergarten AcademyElementary · 321 students
- Upper Allen Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- Shepherdstown Elementary SchoolElementary · 283 students
Other schools in Mechanicsburg
- Cumberland Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,163 students
- Mechanicsburg Area SHSHigh · 1,412 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,403 students
- Mechanicsburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Eagle View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Winding Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,055 students
Other Broad Street Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Broad Street Elementary. Broad Street Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Broad Street Elementary SchoolButler, PA · 228 students
- Broad Street Elementary SchoolGIBBSTOWN, NJ · 290 students
- Broad Street Elementary SchoolNashua, NH · 256 students
Nearby schools
- Mechanicsburg Area SHS0.2 mi · 1,412
- Elmwood Academy0.8 mi · 712
- Northside Elementary School1.0 mi · 221
- Kindergarten Academy1.1 mi · 321
- Mechanicsburg Middle School2.0 mi · 1,112
- Upper Allen Elementary School2.1 mi · 321
Frequently asked questions
About Broad Street Elementary SchoolHow large is Broad Street Elementary School?
Broad Street Elementary School enrolls approximately 239 students in grades 01-03.
What age range does Broad Street Elementary School serve?
Broad Street Elementary School serves students from grade 01 through grade 03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Broad Street Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Broad Street Elementary School is approximately 13.6:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Broad Street Elementary School?
Student demographics at Broad Street Elementary School are roughly 64% White, 8% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Broad Street Elementary School?
Broad Street Elementary School is overseen by Mechanicsburg Area SD in Cumberland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.