Enrollment
317
Elementary
DISTRICT 453 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYNESBORO AREA SD·NCES 422511002234
Hooverville Elementary School
10829 Buchanan Trail East, Waynesboro, PA 17268 · (717) 762-1191 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL317 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
180 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Waynesboro Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
57.8%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
61.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.8% | 61.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.4% | 54.5% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hooverville Elementary School
Hooverville Elementary School's state test result (60.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hooverville Elementary School this school | 317 | 56.8% | 60.9% |
| Fairview Elementary School Midland | 303 | 54.5% | 55.1% |
| Marshall Elementary School Uniontown | 300 | 54.3% | 60.4% |
| Clearview Elementary School Brogue | 300 | 56.3% | 44.3% |
| William Penn Elementary School Monongahela | 333 | 54.1% | 64.3% |
| Paradise Elementary School Thomasville | 306 | 54.9% | 59.1% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hooverville Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #569 of 1,396 | #6 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #512 of 1,511 ▲ 112 | #5 of 24 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.8% | #492 of 1,511 ▲ 246 | #6 of 24 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 317 | #1,189 of 1,638 | #11 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #1,260 of 1,528 | #12 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.0% | #1,100 of 1,531 | #18 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.8% | #873 of 1,600 | #23 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.6% | #1,022 of 1,045 | #17 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
317
+2 (+1%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 353
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 21.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 317 | 21.1 | 15.0:1 | 57% (180) |
| 2023-24 | 326 | 18.9 | 17.3:1 | 55% (180) |
| 2022-23 | 324 | 17.6 | 18.4:1 | 55% (177) |
| 2020-21 | 315 | 15 | 21.0:1 | 54% (171) |
| 2017-18 | 319 | 16.7 | 19.2:1 | 43% (137) |
| 2015-16 | 347 | 17 | 20.4:1 | 41% (141) |
| 2010-11 | 359 | 18 | 19.9:1 | 27% (98) |
| 2000-01 | 318 | 17 | 18.7:1 | 20% (63) |
| 1990-91 | 353 | 19 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hooverville Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (319 to 317); teachers up 27% (16.7 to 21.1).
About Hooverville Elementary School
Hooverville Elementary School is an elementary school in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and it is part of Waynesboro Area SD. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 317 students in 2024-25. The school is 28% below the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Waynesboro Area SD enrolls 4,090 students, and its 6 schools include Hooverville Elementary School.
The share of students at Hooverville Elementary School who are White is 87%. Other groups make up 8% multiracial and 3% Black. Franklin County residents are about 87% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 24%.
Hooverville Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1, with 21.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is higher. The school has 57% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Franklin County, the average eligibility rate is 69%.
Hooverville Elementary School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 62% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Hooverville Elementary School is 7.6 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 60.9% actual, 53.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
For the population of Franklin County, median household income comes to about $77,003, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Franklin County's 41 public schools enroll about 21,432 students and include Hooverville Elementary School.
Summitview Elementary School is about 1.5 miles from Hooverville Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Hooverville Elementary School holds 5 other public schools. The school's 60.9% average proficiency ranks 1st among 9 nearby schools.
Hooverville Elementary School has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 315 to 317. Its ratio of students to teachers was 21.0:1 in 2020-21, and 15.0:1 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
157,379
Census ACS
Median income
$77,003
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
21,432 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Waynesboro Area SD
- Waynesboro Area Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,392 students
- Waynesboro Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 887 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
- Mowrey Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Summitview Elementary SchoolElementary · 363 students
Other schools in Waynesboro
- Waynesboro Area Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,392 students
- Waynesboro Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 887 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
- Mowrey Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Summitview Elementary SchoolElementary · 363 students
Nearby schools
- Summitview Elementary School1.5 mi · 363
- Waynesboro Area Middle School1.7 mi · 887
- Waynesboro Area Senior High School1.9 mi · 1,392
- Fairview Elementary School3.0 mi · 597
- Cascade Elementary3.0 mi · 137
- Mowrey Elementary School5.4 mi · 534
Frequently asked questions
About Hooverville Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hooverville Elementary School?
Hooverville Elementary School enrolls approximately 317 students in grades KG-05.
Is Hooverville Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hooverville Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Hooverville Elementary School?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Hooverville Elementary School.
How diverse is Hooverville Elementary School?
Hooverville Elementary School reports a student body of 87% White, 2% Hispanic, 3% Black, 8% Two or more.
What district is Hooverville Elementary School in?
Hooverville Elementary School is part of Waynesboro Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.