Fritz El Sch

Located at 845 Hornig Rd, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Fritz El Sch is a reasonably sized primary school that instructs 526 students (grades K through 5), operated by Conestoga Valley SD.

Across the 6 schools in Conestoga Valley SD (3,830 students total), Fritz El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Fritz El Sch logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 31% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Lancaster County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Fritz El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fritz El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +7.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Lancaster County shows median household income runs about $86,959, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Lancaster County's 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), Fritz El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Conestoga Valley SHS, roughly 2.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fritz El Sch comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Fritz El Sch's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 694 (now 526). White enrollment moved from 55% to 44% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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