Clearview El Sch

Clearview El Sch is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in Hanover, Pennsylvania, overseen by Hanover Public SD, with 230 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 48% below the state mean of about 443.

Clearview El Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Hanover Public SD, a district that works with 1,926 students overall.

On demographics, Clearview El Sch records that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, York County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, York County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Clearview El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.3%; this one delivers 56.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (York County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $84,829 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across York County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), Clearview El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Conewago Twp El Sch, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clearview El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 55.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clearview El Sch has ticked down 5%, going from 241 students in 2018 to 230 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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