King El Sch

King El Sch is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Lancaster SD, enrolling 413 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Lancaster SD, which oversees 19 schools and 9,901 students, King El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, King El Sch logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 14% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Lancaster County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at King El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lancaster County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, King El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 23.6%, a residual of -12.2 points.

Across the wider county, Lancaster County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,959 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lancaster County's 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), King El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Phoenix Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), King El Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.3%.

King El Sch operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 492 students in 2018 compared to 413 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.