East Pennsboro El Sch

East Pennsboro El Sch is a mid-sized elementary school in Enola, Pennsylvania, part of East Pennsboro Area SD. The school teaches 583 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so East Pennsboro El Sch sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

East Pennsboro Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,567 students; East Pennsboro El Sch is among them.

On demographics, East Pennsboro El Sch records that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Black, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, East Pennsboro El Sch shows 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Cumberland County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, East Pennsboro El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 58.4%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cumberland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Cumberland County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), East Pennsboro El Sch is one campus in the mix.

East Pennsboro Area MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East Pennsboro El Sch. On composite proficiency, East Pennsboro El Sch comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. East Pennsboro El Sch's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 552 (now 583). The White share of enrollment fell from 68% to 62% over that span.

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