Highland El Sch

Highland El Sch is an elementary campus of close-knit scale in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, part of West Shore SD, instructing 375 students in grades K through 4.

West Shore SD runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,705 students. Highland El Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Highland El Sch records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 9% Black, 6% Asian. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Highland El Sch lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Highland El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Highland El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.7%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cumberland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Highland El Sch is one of 57 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students).

Cedar Cliff HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Highland El Sch at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 58.7%.

Highland El Sch operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Highland El Sch's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 474 (now 375). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 75% to 58%.

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