Landisville MS

Set in Landisville, Pennsylvania, Landisville MS is a close-knit 6-8 campus, overseen by Hempfield SD. It serves 501 students across grades 7 through 8.

Within Hempfield SD, which oversees 10 schools and 6,884 students, Landisville MS is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Landisville MS shows that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 39% of students at Landisville MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lancaster County (around 55%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Landisville MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 60.7%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lancaster County put the typical household earns roughly $86,959 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Lancaster County runs 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), of which Landisville MS is one.

The closest other public school is Landisville Intrmd Ctr, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Landisville MS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Landisville MS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.1%.

Landisville MS operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Landisville MS's enrollment has climbed 5% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 501). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 11% to 18%.

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