Conestoga Valley SHS

Conestoga Valley SHS operates as a heavily attended four-year high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Conestoga Valley SD. Current enrollment sits at 1,304 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Conestoga Valley SHS sits 77% above that benchmark.

Conestoga Valley SHS is one of 6 schools operated by Conestoga Valley SD, a district that educates 3,830 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Conestoga Valley SHS logs that White students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Conestoga Valley SHS has 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Conestoga Valley SHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Conestoga Valley SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.6%, the actual is 59.1%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lancaster County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,959, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Conestoga Valley SHS is one campus in the mix.

Gerald G Huesken MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Conestoga Valley SHS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Conestoga Valley SHS's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,332 (now 1,304). Over the same period, the White share declined from 66% to 55%.

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