Fishing Creek El Sch

Fishing Creek El Sch is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, run under West Shore SD, with 431 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

West Shore SD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,705 students; Fishing Creek El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fishing Creek El Sch lists that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against York County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fishing Creek El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.7%; this one delivers 62.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for York County shows median household income runs about $84,829, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fishing Creek El Sch is one of 111 public schools in York County (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students).

The closest other public school is Crossroads MS, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fishing Creek El Sch comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 476 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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