Fulton El Sch

Fulton El Sch operates as an intimate primary school in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, run under Ephrata Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 297 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Fulton El Sch sits 33% below that benchmark.

Across the 7 schools in Ephrata Area SD (3,904 students total), Fulton El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Fulton El Sch logs that White students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at Fulton El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fulton El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.2%; this one delivers 63.4%.

Across the wider county, Lancaster County reports that median household income runs about $86,959, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Lancaster County's 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), Fulton El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Highland El Sch, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fulton El Sch. On composite proficiency, Fulton El Sch comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fulton El Sch has fell 19%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 297 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 81% to 67% over that span.

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