Ephrata SHS

As a sizable secondary school in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Ephrata SHS works with 1,347 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Ephrata Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 83% bigger than the state mean of about 738.

Ephrata Area SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,904 students; Ephrata SHS is among them.

Demographically, Ephrata SHS shows that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, Ephrata SHS has 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Ephrata SHS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lancaster County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,959 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Ephrata SHS is one of 114 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students).

Ephrata MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ephrata SHS comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ephrata SHS has climbed 8%, going from 1,249 students in 2018 to 1,347 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 84% to 77%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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