Ferguson Sch

Ferguson Sch operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in York, Pennsylvania, part of York City SD. Current enrollment sits at 627 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 42% bigger than typical.

Ferguson Sch is one of 9 schools operated by York City SD, a district that educates 6,306 students overall.

On demographics, Ferguson Sch shows that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 40% Hispanic, 7% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 6%.

On the income-and-resources front, Ferguson Sch shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 101% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against York County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Ferguson Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.4%; actual is 11.0%, a gap of -23.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for York County shows median household earnings sit near $84,829, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Ferguson Sch is one of 111 public schools in York County (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students).

Nearest neighbor: York Academy Regional CS, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ferguson Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ferguson Sch ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 21.3%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Ferguson Sch's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 654 (now 627). The Black share of enrollment rose from 35% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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