Halifax Area El Sch

Located at 151 School Rd, in Halifax, Pennsylvania, Halifax Area El Sch is a small K-5 school that hosts 349 students (grades pre-K through 4), run under Halifax Area SD. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Halifax Area SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 846 students. Halifax Area El Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Halifax Area El Sch lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Dauphin County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Halifax Area El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.0%; this one delivers 53.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dauphin County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,242, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Dauphin County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), of which Halifax Area El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Halifax Area MS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Halifax Area El Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Halifax Area El Sch's enrollment has grew 11% since 2018, when it stood at 314 (now 349). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 91% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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