Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GETTYSBURG AREA SD·NCES 421071005126
James Gettys Elementary School
898 Biglerville Rd, Gettysburg, PA 17325 · (717) 334-6254 · Adams County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% 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
12.3:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
190 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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 Gettysburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
56.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -0.2pp since 2023
Math
56.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.3% | 56.6% |
| 2023-24 | 56.5% | 54.7% |
% 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
59.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% 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 James Gettys Elementary School
James Gettys Elementary School's state test result (59.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Gettys Elementary School this school | 334 | 56.9% | 59.1% |
| Orendorf Elementary School Manchester | 350 | 58.0% | 55.5% |
| Pequea Elementary School Willow Street | 336 | 58.0% | 62.3% |
| Baron Elementary School Manheim | 350 | 58.0% | 50.6% |
| Penn Valley Elementary School Levittown | 356 | 61.5% | 50.3% |
| Fulton Elementary School Ephrata | 297 | 61.6% | 63.4% |
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 James Gettys Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.1% | #624 of 1,396 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.6% | #634 of 1,511 ▼ 15 | #6 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #540 of 1,511 ▲ 194 | #3 of 11 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #1,124 of 1,638 | #9 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #523 of 1,528 | #2 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.3% | #530 of 1,531 | #2 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.9% | #872 of 1,600 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.2% | #209 of 1,045 | #1 of 8 |
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
334
-26 (-7%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 531
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 334 | 27.3 | 12.3:1 | 57% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 337 | 27.6 | 12.2:1 | 56% (190) |
| 2022-23 | 331 | 26.6 | 12.4:1 | 47% (156) |
| 2020-21 | 360 | 27 | 13.3:1 | 51% (183) |
| 2017-18 | 435 | 28.1 | 15.5:1 | 54% (237) |
| 2015-16 | 421 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 56% (235) |
| 2010-11 | 300 | 19 | 15.8:1 | 41% (124) |
| 2000-01 | 246 | 14 | 17.6:1 | 23% (56) |
| 1990-91 | 531 | 25 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for James Gettys Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (435 to 334); teachers down 3% (28.1 to 27.3).
About James Gettys Elementary School
James Gettys Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Gettysburg Area SD in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 334 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 25% below average.
The 5 schools in Gettysburg Area SD enroll 2,782 students altogether, James Gettys Elementary School among them.
The share of White students at James Gettys Elementary School is 68%, a majority. Smaller groups are 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Adams County is roughly 89% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 50, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at James Gettys Elementary School, there are about 12.3 students; the school has 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 57%. Among public schools in Adams County, the average eligibility rate is 47%.
James Gettys 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 56% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, James Gettys Elementary School would be expected to post about 53.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 59.1%.
Adams County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $84,092, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 26 public schools in the county, enrolling about 12,831, James Gettys Elementary School among them.
About 0.7 miles separate James Gettys Elementary School from the closest public school, Adams County Technical Institute. The five-mile area around James Gettys Elementary School holds 7 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts James Gettys Elementary School at 3rd of 8.
James Gettys Elementary School is in a town close to an urbanized area, a location NCES labels Town: Fringe.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 7%, from 360 to 334. The number of students per teacher dropped from 13.3 to 12.3 over 4 years.
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Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
106,115
Census ACS
Median income
$84,092
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
12,831 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in Gettysburg Area SD
- Gettysburg Area High SchoolHigh · 1,069 students
- Gettysburg Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 646 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 393 students
- Franklin Twp Elementary SchoolElementary · 340 students
Other schools in Gettysburg
- Gettysburg Area High SchoolHigh · 1,069 students
- Gettysburg Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 646 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 393 students
- Gettysburg Montessori CSElementary · 281 students
- Vida CSElementary · 251 students
- Adams County Technical InstituteHigh · 5 students
Nearby schools
- Adams County Technical Institute0.7 mi · 5
- Gettysburg Area High School0.8 mi · 1,069
- Vida CS0.9 mi · 251
- Lincoln Elementary School1.6 mi · 393
- Gettysburg Area Middle School1.6 mi · 646
- Gettysburg Montessori CS4.9 mi · 281
Frequently asked questions
About James Gettys Elementary SchoolHow large is James Gettys Elementary School?
James Gettys Elementary School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does James Gettys Elementary School serve?
James Gettys Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at James Gettys Elementary School?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at James Gettys Elementary School.
How diverse is James Gettys Elementary School?
James Gettys Elementary School reports a student body of 68% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is James Gettys Elementary School public or private?
James Gettys Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gettysburg Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.