Kreutz Creek El Sch

Set in Hellam, Pennsylvania, Kreutz Creek El Sch is a low-enrollment K-5 school, one of the schools within Eastern York SD. It enrolls 320 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Kreutz Creek El Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Eastern York SD, a district that educates 2,188 students overall.

Demographically, Kreutz Creek El Sch lists that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to York County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Kreutz Creek El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at Kreutz Creek El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kreutz Creek El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,829 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across York County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), Kreutz Creek El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Stony Brook El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kreutz Creek El Sch at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 57.8%.

Kreutz Creek El Sch operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kreutz Creek El Sch has declined 20%, going from 400 students in 2018 to 320 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 88% to 79%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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