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Enrollment
671
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENCASTLE-ANTRIM SD·NCES 421101002202
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School
500 East Leitersburg Street, Greencastle, PA 17225 · (717) 597-3226 · Franklin County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL671 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
15.9:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
244 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 3 | 217 | 32% |
| Grade 4 | 215 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 239 | 36% |
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Greencastle-Antrim SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
59.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.6pp since 2023
Math
62.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +8.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 62.9% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 54.0% |
% 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
62.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School's state test result (62.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School this school | 671 | 36.4% | 62.7% |
| Allison Park Elementary School Houston | 691 | 37.0% | 64.2% |
| Blue Mountain El East School Orwigsburg | 609 | 35.1% | 57.4% |
| Oley Valley Elementary School Oley | 593 | 34.6% | 61.4% |
| Park Hills Elementary School Hanover | 572 | 38.8% | 53.4% |
| Hans Herr Elementary School Lampeter | 611 | 32.6% | 68.5% |
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 Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.7% | #504 of 1,396 | #5 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #453 of 1,511 ▲ 186 | #4 of 24 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #465 of 1,511 ▲ 108 | #5 of 24 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 671 | #167 of 1,638 | #1 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #1,381 of 1,528 | #16 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.3% | #974 of 1,531 | #16 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.4% | #1,227 of 1,600 | #25 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.5% | #581 of 1,045 | #9 of 18 |
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
671
+33 (+5%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 722
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 671 | 42.3 | 15.9:1 | 36% (244) |
| 2023-24 | 661 | 41.7 | 15.8:1 | 37% (244) |
| 2022-23 | 680 | 41.6 | 16.4:1 | 40% (275) |
| 2020-21 | 638 | 39 | 16.4:1 | 38% (241) |
| 2017-18 | 758 | 42.3 | 17.9:1 | 32% (241) |
| 2015-16 | 717 | 37 | 19.4:1 | 36% (259) |
| 2010-11 | 681 | 36 | 18.9:1 | 22% (151) |
| 2000-01 | 836 | 39 | 21.4:1 | 10% (82) |
| 1990-91 | 722 | 34 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (758 to 671); teachers unchanged (42.3 to 42.3).
About Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School is a large elementary school for students in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. It reported 671 students in grades 3 through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 51% larger than average.
Federal data list 4 schools in Greencastle-Antrim SD, with 2,911 students enrolled.
Roughly 83% of students at Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School are White. Other students are 8% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. Franklin County residents are about 87% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School scores 30%.
With 42.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.9:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1. Roughly 36% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Franklin County is 69%.
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 54% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.7%, compared with a predicted 62.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Franklin County, the median household earns about $77,003 a year, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Franklin County has 41 public schools with about 21,432 students, including Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School.
The closest school to Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School is Greencastle-Antrim Primary School, located about 0.1 miles away. There are 3 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 54.5% on proficiency, and Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School is above that at 62.7%.
In the federal locale system, Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A 5% increase took enrollment from 638 in 2020-21 to 671 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
157,379
Census ACS
Median income
$77,003
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
21,432 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greencastle-Antrim SD
- Greencastle-Antrim SHSHigh · 982 students
- Greencastle-Antrim Middle SchoolMiddle · 729 students
- Greencastle-Antrim Primary SchoolElementary · 529 students
Other schools in Greencastle
- Greencastle-Antrim SHSHigh · 982 students
- Greencastle-Antrim Middle SchoolMiddle · 729 students
- Greencastle-Antrim Primary SchoolElementary · 529 students
Nearby schools
- Greencastle-Antrim Primary School0.1 mi · 529
- Greencastle-Antrim Middle School0.3 mi · 729
- Greencastle-Antrim SHS0.3 mi · 982
- Marion Elementary School5.6 mi · 292
- Maugansville Elementary6.3 mi · 698
- Paramount Elementary6.8 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About Greencastle-Antrim Elementary SchoolHow large is Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School?
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School enrolls approximately 671 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School serve?
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many teachers does Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School have?
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School?
Student demographics at Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School are roughly 83% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School in?
Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School is part of Greencastle-Antrim SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.