Kissel Hill El Sch

As a medium-sized primary school in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Kissel Hill El Sch serves 579 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Warwick SD. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 31% bigger than typical.

Across the 6 schools in Warwick SD (3,705 students total), Kissel Hill El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Kissel Hill El Sch shows that 80% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Lancaster County as a whole.

On the resource side, Kissel Hill El Sch lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Kissel Hill El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Lancaster County's rate of about 55%.

After controlling for student poverty, Kissel Hill El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.2%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lancaster County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,959, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Kissel Hill El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lititz El Sch, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kissel Hill El Sch comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kissel Hill El Sch has expanded 8%, going from 536 students in 2018 to 579 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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