Hanover Area Memorial El Sch

As a modestly sized middle school in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, Hanover Area Memorial El Sch instructs 319 students from grades 5 through 6, operated by Hanover Area SD. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Within Hanover Area SD, which oversees 5 schools and 2,204 students, Hanover Area Memorial El Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hanover Area Memorial El Sch shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 29% Hispanic, 18% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hanover Area Memorial El Sch shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Hanover Area Memorial El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 33.9%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Luzerne County shows median household earnings sit near $63,691, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Luzerne County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,209 students), of which Hanover Area Memorial El Sch is one.

Lee Park El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hanover Area Memorial El Sch. On composite proficiency, Hanover Area Memorial El Sch comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

Hanover Area Memorial El Sch operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 28%: 442 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 49% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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