Conestoga El Sch

As a compact elementary school in Conestoga, Pennsylvania, Conestoga El Sch serves 301 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Penn Manor SD. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Within Penn Manor SD, which oversees 10 schools and 5,431 students, Conestoga El Sch is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Conestoga El Sch shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Conestoga El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 67.6%, a residual of +10.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lancaster County put the typical household earns roughly $86,959 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Conestoga El Sch is one of 114 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students).

The closest other public school is Marticville MS, roughly 2.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Conestoga El Sch. On composite proficiency, Conestoga El Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.8%.

Conestoga El Sch operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 302 students in 2018 compared to 301 in 2025.

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