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Enrollment
474
Elementary
DISTRICT 587 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND VALLEY SD·NCES 420711001700
Green Ridge Elementary School
1 Green Ridge Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 · (717) 766-4911 · Cumberland County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL474 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
139 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 94 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 21% |
This year's 1st grade class (94) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
77.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.7pp since 2023
Math
79.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +8.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.4% | 79.6% |
| 2023-24 | 83.1% | 71.5% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
79.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Green Ridge Elementary School
Green Ridge Elementary School's state test result (79.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Ridge Elementary School this school | 474 | 29.3% | 79.9% |
| Exton Elementary School Exton | 533 | 14.1% | 72.0% |
| Silver Spring Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 528 | 30.9% | 67.1% |
| Kathryn D. Markley Elementary School Malvern | 426 | 37.3% | 70.6% |
| Mary C Howse Elementary School West Chester | 442 | 7.9% | 76.8% |
| Devon Elementary School Devon | 401 | 5.7% | 84.5% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Green Ridge Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.9% | #113 of 1,396 | #1 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.6% | #115 of 1,511 ▲ 103 | #1 of 34 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.4% | #96 of 1,511 ▼ 20 | #1 of 34 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 474 | #603 of 1,638 | #13 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #1,259 of 1,528 | #27 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.3% | #313 of 1,531 | #10 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.3% | #1,337 of 1,600 | #34 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.6% | #363 of 1,045 | #7 of 21 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
474
-21 (-4%) vs 2020
+57% since 1990-91, when it was 302
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 18.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 474 | 31.6 | 15.0:1 | 29% (139) |
| 2023-24 | 554 | 33.3 | 16.6:1 | 25% (139) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 34.1 | 16.3:1 | 23% (128) |
| 2020-21 | 495 | 27 | 18.3:1 | 17% (86) |
| 2017-18 | 575 | 33.6 | 17.1:1 | 17% (98) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 16% (83) |
| 2010-11 | 418 | 28 | 14.9:1 | 10% (42) |
| 2000-01 | 458 | 29 | 15.8:1 | 4% (18) |
| 1990-91 | 302 | 16 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Green Ridge Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (575 to 474); teachers down 6% (33.6 to 31.6).
About Green Ridge Elementary School
As a medium-sized elementary school, Green Ridge Elementary School serves students in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It serves 474 students in grades 1 through 5.
Green Ridge Elementary School reports to Cumberland Valley SD, which has 11 schools and 10,374 students.
Green Ridge Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 46%. Smaller groups are 42% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 82% of Cumberland County residents are White. By the diversity index, Green Ridge Elementary School comes in at 60%.
Green Ridge Elementary School counts 31.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.0 students for each one. Among elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the typical ratio is 13.1:1. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 41% for public schools in Cumberland County.
allk12 grades Green Ridge Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Green Ridge Elementary School is 65.0%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 79.9%.
In the county around the school, Cumberland County, median household income is about $87,494, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. A total of 57 public schools operate in Cumberland County, serving about 33,044 students.
Cumberland Perry Area Career & Technical Center is the closest public school, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line. Green Ridge Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Green Ridge Elementary School comes in 1st of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Fringe, or in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment was 495 in 2020-21 and 474 in 2024-25, a decrease of 21 students. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 18.3:1 to 15.0:1.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
268,323
Census ACS
Median income
$87,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
33,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland Valley SD
- Cumberland Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,163 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,403 students
- Eagle View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Winding Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,055 students
- Shaull Elementary SchoolElementary · 591 students
- Sporting Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
Other schools in Mechanicsburg
- Cumberland Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,163 students
- Mechanicsburg Area SHSHigh · 1,412 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,403 students
- Mechanicsburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Eagle View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Winding Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,055 students
Other Green Ridge Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Green Ridge Elementary. Green Ridge Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Green Ridge ElementaryBiscoe, NC · 271 students
- GREEN RIDGE ELEM.GREEN RIDGE, MO · 171 students
Nearby schools
- Cumberland Perry Area Career & Technical Center1.2 mi · 28
- Eagle View Middle School1.8 mi · 1,111
- Silver Spring Elementary School1.9 mi · 528
- Cumberland Valley High School2.0 mi · 3,163
- Winding Creek Elementary School2.1 mi · 1,055
- Mountain View Middle School2.3 mi · 1,403
Frequently asked questions
About Green Ridge Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Green Ridge Elementary School?
Green Ridge Elementary School enrolls approximately 474 students in grades 01-05.
What age range does Green Ridge Elementary School serve?
Green Ridge Elementary School serves students from grade 01 through grade 05.
How many teachers does Green Ridge Elementary School have?
Green Ridge Elementary School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
How diverse is Green Ridge Elementary School?
Green Ridge Elementary School reports a student body of 46% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 42% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Green Ridge Elementary School?
Green Ridge Elementary School is overseen by Cumberland Valley SD in Cumberland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.