Kunkel El Sch

As a cozy elementary school in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Kunkel El Sch educates 369 students from grades K through 5, part of Middletown Area SD.

Middletown Area SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,272 students; Kunkel El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kunkel El Sch reports that White students make up the majority at 59%; the rest breaks down as 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian, 6% Black. Compared to Dauphin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kunkel El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Dauphin County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,242 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dauphin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), Kunkel El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Middletown Area MS, around 2.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kunkel El Sch comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 457 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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