Goode Sch

As a moderately sized K-5 school in York, Pennsylvania, Goode Sch works with 641 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by York City SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Goode Sch sits 45% above that benchmark.

York City SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,306 students. Goode Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Goode Sch shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 42% Black, 8% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, York County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 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. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, York County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Goode Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.4%; actual is 12.3%, a gap of -24.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for York County shows median household income runs about $84,829, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across York County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), Goode Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is York Academy Regional CS, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Goode Sch. On composite proficiency, Goode Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 16.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 646 students in 2018 compared to 641 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 27% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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