Fink El Sch

As a compact primary school in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Fink El Sch enrolls 257 students from grades K through 5, operated by Middletown Area SD. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Middletown Area SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,272 students; Fink El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fink El Sch lists that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 28% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Dauphin County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Fink El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.9%.

In the surrounding community, Dauphin County reports that median household income runs about $76,242, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Fink El Sch is one of 75 public schools in Dauphin County (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students).

The closest other public school is Middletown Area HS, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fink El Sch comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fink El Sch's enrollment has grew 14% since 2018, when it stood at 225 (now 257). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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