Central Manor El Sch

Central Manor El Sch operates as a moderately sized elementary school in Washington Boro, Pennsylvania, part of Penn Manor SD. Current enrollment sits at 595 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Central Manor El Sch sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Penn Manor SD comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,431 students; Central Manor El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Central Manor El Sch lists that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, On paper, Central Manor El Sch has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at Central Manor El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Central Manor El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.9%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lancaster County put median household earnings sit near $86,959, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lancaster County's 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), Central Manor El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Letort El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Central Manor El Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Manor El Sch has contracted 10%, going from 658 students in 2018 to 595 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 69% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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