Hooverville El Sch

Set in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Hooverville El Sch is a small K-5 school, overseen by Waynesboro Area SD. It enrolls 317 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Waynesboro Area SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,090 students. Hooverville El Sch is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Hooverville El Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest looks like 8% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Franklin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Hooverville El Sch logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Franklin County's rate of about 69%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hooverville El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Across the wider county, Franklin County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,003, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Franklin County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students), Hooverville El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Summitview El Sch, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hooverville El Sch at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 50.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Hooverville El Sch's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 319 (now 317). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 92% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Hooverville El Sch typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.