Carter and MacRae El Sch

Carter and MacRae El Sch, an average-sized elementary school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, part of Lancaster SD, instructs 444 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Lancaster SD comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 9,901 students; Carter and MacRae El Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Carter and MacRae El Sch lists that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 27% Black, 8% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Lancaster County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Carter and MacRae El Sch lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Carter and MacRae El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lancaster County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Carter and MacRae El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 26.8%, a residual of -11.1 points.

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 roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Carter and MacRae El Sch is one of 114 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students).

Nearest neighbor: King El Sch, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carter and MacRae El Sch. On composite proficiency, Carter and MacRae El Sch comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 7%: 416 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 64% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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