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Enrollment
500
Elementary
DISTRICT 495 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORNWALL-LEBANON SD·NCES 420684002728
Ebenezer Elementary School
1600 Colonial Cir, Lebanon, PA 17046 · (717) 272-1969 · Lebanon County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL500 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
283 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Cornwall-Lebanon SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
50.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.9pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +7.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.6% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.5% | 43.6% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ebenezer Elementary School
Ebenezer Elementary School's state test result (53.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ebenezer Elementary School this school | 500 | 56.6% | 53.5% |
| Salisbury Elementary School Allentown | 461 | 52.7% | 59.8% |
| Smoketown Elementary School Lancaster | 470 | 49.6% | 48.6% |
| Stony Brook Elementary School York | 484 | 53.9% | 55.5% |
| Biglerville Elementary School Biglerville | 421 | 61.8% | 55.4% |
| Shiloh Hills Elementary School Sinking Spring | 572 | 46.7% | 61.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ebenezer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lebanon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #773 of 1,396 | #9 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #772 of 1,511 ▲ 122 | #8 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #722 of 1,511 ▲ 41 | #8 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 500 | #533 of 1,638 | #8 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #920 of 1,528 | #8 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.5% | #454 of 1,531 | #3 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.6% | #876 of 1,600 | #7 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.1% | #289 of 1,045 | #1 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
500
-58 (-10%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 476
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 500 | 37 | 13.5:1 | 57% (283) |
| 2023-24 | 526 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 54% (283) |
| 2022-23 | 539 | 37.5 | 14.4:1 | 47% (256) |
| 2020-21 | 558 | 39 | 14.3:1 | 43% (242) |
| 2017-18 | 626 | 41.5 | 15.1:1 | 40% (248) |
| 2015-16 | 592 | 39 | 15.2:1 | 38% (227) |
| 2010-11 | 621 | 39 | 15.9:1 | 25% (155) |
| 2000-01 | 604 | 38 | 15.9:1 | 14% (87) |
| 1990-91 | 476 | 25 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ebenezer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (626 to 500); teachers down 11% (41.5 to 37).
About Ebenezer Elementary School
At 1600 Colonial Cir in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Ebenezer Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school. The school's 500 students are in kindergarten through 5.
The 6 schools in Cornwall-Lebanon SD enroll 4,881 students altogether, Ebenezer Elementary School among them.
White students are the majority at Ebenezer Elementary School, with 61% of enrollment. Other groups make up 29% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. Lebanon County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Ebenezer Elementary School operates with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 13.5:1. That is close to the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Ebenezer Elementary School reports 57% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
The allk12 Grade for Ebenezer Elementary School is C+. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 42% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Test results at Ebenezer Elementary School are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (53.5% actual, 53.3% predicted).
Recent Census Bureau figures for Lebanon County show that the median household income is $78,425, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Besides Ebenezer Elementary School, Lebanon County has 36 other public schools.
Northwest Elementary School is the closest public school, about 1.5 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Ebenezer Elementary School.
Ebenezer Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Small locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment is down 10% from 2020-21, when Ebenezer Elementary School had 558 students, to 2024-25, when it had 500.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Lebanon County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
144,186
Census ACS
Median income
$78,425
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
18,804 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cornwall-Lebanon SD
- Cedar Crest High SchoolHigh · 1,676 students
- Cedar Crest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,224 students
- South Lebanon Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cornwall Elementary SchoolElementary · 541 students
- Union Canal Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
Other schools in Lebanon
- Cedar Crest High SchoolHigh · 1,676 students
- Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,393 students
- Cedar Crest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,224 students
- Lebanon Junior High SchoolMiddle · 693 students
- Northwest Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Harding Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
Other Ebenezer Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Ebenezer Elementary. Ebenezer Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Ebenezer Elementary SchoolRincon, GA · 995 students
Nearby schools
- Northwest Elementary School1.5 mi · 557
- Lebanon Intermediate School1.9 mi · 380
- Houck Elementary School2.2 mi · 348
- Harding Elementary School2.4 mi · 555
- Southeast Elementary School2.9 mi · 438
- Southwest Elementary School3.1 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About Ebenezer Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ebenezer Elementary School?
Ebenezer Elementary School enrolls approximately 500 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Ebenezer Elementary School serve?
Ebenezer Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Ebenezer Elementary School?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at Ebenezer Elementary School.
How diverse is Ebenezer Elementary School?
Ebenezer Elementary School reports a student body of 61% White, 29% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Ebenezer Elementary School public or private?
Ebenezer Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cornwall-Lebanon SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.