Harding El Sch

Harding El Sch is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Lebanon SD, with 555 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Harding El Sch is one of 8 schools operated by Lebanon SD, a district that instructs 4,754 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Harding El Sch lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 14% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Lebanon County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Harding El Sch logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 103% of students at Harding El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lebanon County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harding El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lebanon County put the typical household earns roughly $78,425 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Lebanon County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,804 students), Harding El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Lebanon Intermediate Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Harding El Sch operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 643 students in 2018 compared to 555 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 65% to 77% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Harding El Sch community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.