Greencastle-Antrim El Sch

Set in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, Greencastle-Antrim El Sch is a roomy primary school, one of the schools within Greencastle-Antrim SD. It teaches 671 students across grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 51% bigger than typical.

Greencastle-Antrim SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,911 students; Greencastle-Antrim El Sch is among them.

On demographics, Greencastle-Antrim El Sch lists that nearly all students (83%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Greencastle-Antrim El Sch records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Greencastle-Antrim El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at Greencastle-Antrim El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Franklin County's rate of about 69%.

After controlling for student poverty, Greencastle-Antrim El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household income runs about $77,003, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Franklin County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students), of which Greencastle-Antrim El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Greencastle-Antrim Primary Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Greencastle-Antrim El Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.5%.

Greencastle-Antrim El Sch operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 758 students in 2018 compared to 671 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 89% to 83%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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