Hershey Early Childhood Ctr

Located at 450-Rear Homestead Road, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Hershey Early Childhood Ctr is a reasonably sized elementary campus that educates 420 students (grades K through 1), one of the schools within Derry Township SD.

Derry Township SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,118 students. Hershey Early Childhood Ctr is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hershey Early Childhood Ctr logs that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Dauphin County's rate of about 59%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dauphin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,242 per year, 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 Hershey Early Childhood Ctr is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hershey Primary El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Hershey Early Childhood Ctr's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 420). The White share of enrollment shrank from 67% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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