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Enrollment
489
Elementary
DISTRICT 512 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HEMPFIELD SD·NCES 421179002577
Farmdale Elementary School
695 Prospect Rd, Mount Joy, PA 17552 · (717) 898-5595 · Lancaster County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL489 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% 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.
- A+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
13.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
486 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 80 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 33% smaller than its 6th grade class (80).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
60.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
64.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.6% | 64.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.5% | 62.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+30.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 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 Farmdale Elementary School
Farmdale Elementary School's state test result (65.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmdale Elementary School this school | 489 | 99.4% | 65.0% |
| Minersville Area El Center Minersville | 468 | 97.2% | 43.1% |
| Fayetteville Elementary School Fayetteville | 481 | 96.7% | 57.0% |
| Hamilton Heights Elementary School Chambersburg | 553 | 98.4% | 54.3% |
| Brecknock Elementary School Mohnton | 459 | 99.3% | 51.4% |
| Wallenpaupack North Intrmd School Hawley | 474 | 98.5% | 61.9% |
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 Farmdale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lancaster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #443 of 1,396 | #18 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #397 of 1,511 ▲ 21 | #13 of 62 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.6% | #414 of 1,511 ▲ 93 | #18 of 62 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 489 | #557 of 1,638 | #15 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #987 of 1,528 | #38 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.0% | #652 of 1,531 | #33 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #342 of 1,600 | #8 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #706 of 1,045 | #37 of 49 |
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
489
-34 (-7%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 683
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 489 | 35.7 | 13.7:1 | 99% (486) |
| 2023-24 | 507 | 36.6 | 13.9:1 | 99% (504) |
| 2022-23 | 517 | 35.1 | 14.8:1 | 45% (232) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | 32 | 16.3:1 | 40% (208) |
| 2017-18 | 536 | 36 | 14.9:1 | 38% (202) |
| 2015-16 | 521 | 38 | 13.7:1 | 38% (198) |
| 2010-11 | 507 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 18% (90) |
| 2000-01 | 581 | 33 | 17.6:1 | 12% (69) |
| 1990-91 | 683 | 45 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Farmdale Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (536 to 489); teachers down 1% (36 to 35.7).
About Farmdale Elementary School
Farmdale Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. A total of 489 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 6.
Hempfield SD runs Farmdale Elementary School along with 9 other schools, enrolling 6,884 students in total.
Roughly 71% of students at Farmdale Elementary School are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 19% Hispanic and 8% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 82%. Pick two students at random and there is a 45% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At Farmdale Elementary School, 35.7 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.7:1. That is close to the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 99% of enrollment. The 55% average for public schools in Lancaster County is 44 points lower.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Farmdale Elementary School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Farmdale Elementary School beats its 35.0% prediction with 65.0%, a top-10% result in Pennsylvania.
Among Lancaster County residents, the median household income is $86,959, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Besides Farmdale Elementary School, Lancaster County has 113 other public schools.
Mountville Elementary School is located about 2.4 miles from Farmdale Elementary School. The five-mile area around Farmdale Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 65.5%, higher than Farmdale Elementary School's 65.0%.
Locale data from NCES put Farmdale Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment has fallen by 34 students since 2020-21, to 489. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 16.3:1 to 13.7:1.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Lancaster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
557,931
Census ACS
Median income
$86,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
114
62,719 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hempfield SD
- Hempfield SHSHigh · 2,281 students
- Centerville Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- Mountville Elementary SchoolElementary · 552 students
- Landisville Pri CenterElementary · 547 students
- Centerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 544 students
- Landisville Middle SchoolMiddle · 501 students
Other schools in Mount Joy
- Donegal High SchoolHigh · 955 students
- Donegal Primary SchoolElementary · 559 students
- Donegal Junior High SchoolMiddle · 419 students
- Lancaster County Career and Technology Center - Mt JoyHigh · 15 students
Other Farmdale Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Farmdale Elementary. Farmdale Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Farmdale ElementaryMerced, CA · 919 students
- Farmdale ElementaryLos Angeles, CA · 324 students
Nearby schools
- Mountville Elementary School2.4 mi · 552
- Columbia MS Hill Campus2.5 mi · 202
- Columbia High School2.5 mi · 397
- Landisville Middle School2.6 mi · 501
- Columbia MS Taylor Campus2.7 mi · 202
- Landisville Intrmd Center2.8 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Farmdale Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Farmdale Elementary School?
Farmdale Elementary School enrolls approximately 489 students in grades KG-06.
Is Farmdale Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Farmdale Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Farmdale Elementary School have?
Farmdale Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Farmdale Elementary School?
At Farmdale Elementary School, the student body is approximately 71% White, 19% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Farmdale Elementary School?
Farmdale Elementary School is overseen by Hempfield SD in Lancaster County.
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