Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL DAUPHIN SD·NCES 420540009939
Lawnton Elementary School
4400 Franklin St, Harrisburg, PA 17111 · (717) 558-9430 · Dauphin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
285 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 57% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
28.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -11.6pp since 2023
Math
28.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.8% | 28.2% |
| 2023-24 | 40.4% | 24.3% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lawnton Elementary School
Lawnton Elementary School's state test result (32.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawnton Elementary School this school | 310 | 91.9% | 32.2% |
| McCall Gen George A School Philadelphia | 629 | 98.1% | 77.9% |
| Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 Pittsburgh | 322 | 89.4% | 36.8% |
| Jenks Abram School Philadelphia | 278 | 91.7% | 69.9% |
| Taggart John H School Philadelphia | 529 | 99.1% | 33.1% |
| Chambers Hill Elementary School Harrisburg | 257 | 96.5% | 39.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lawnton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Dauphin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #1,148 of 1,396 | #26 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #1,186 of 1,511 ▲ 26 | #27 of 36 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #1,222 of 1,511 ▼ 107 | #26 of 36 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #1,211 of 1,638 | #31 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #609 of 1,528 | #15 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.9% | #98 of 1,531 | #12 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.9% | #633 of 1,600 | #17 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.3% | #104 of 450 | #3 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
310
-7 (-2%) vs 2020
+10% since 1990-91, when it was 283
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 310 | 24.7 | 12.5:1 | 92% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 285 | 21.4 | 13.3:1 | 100% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 283 | 19.9 | 14.3:1 | 99% (281) |
| 2020-21 | 317 | 23 | 13.8:1 | 100% (317) |
| 2017-18 | 262 | 19.3 | 13.6:1 | 100% (262) |
| 2015-16 | 236 | 17 | 13.9:1 | 61% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 223 | 19 | 11.7:1 | 34% (75) |
| 2000-01 | 349 | 23 | 15.2:1 | 15% (52) |
| 1990-91 | 283 | 18 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lawnton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (262 to 310); teachers up 28% (19.3 to 24.7).
About Lawnton Elementary School
Lawnton Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. School enrollment was 310 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students.
Central Dauphin SD (19 schools, 12,389 students) runs Lawnton Elementary School.
Federal enrollment data show Asian students as the largest group at Lawnton Elementary School, at 47%. The rest of enrollment is 20% Black, 14% Hispanic, 9% White, and 9% multiracial. Among all residents of Dauphin County, the Asian share is about 7%. Lawnton Elementary School's diversity index is 70%, against a US figure of 70%.
Lawnton Elementary School operates with 24.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 12.5:1. That matches the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania fairly closely. Lawnton Elementary School reports 92% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 59% average for public schools in Dauphin County is 33 points.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Lawnton Elementary School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Lawnton Elementary School is 38.2%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 32.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Dauphin County show that the median household income is $76,242, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Besides Lawnton Elementary School, Dauphin County has 74 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Reach Cyber CS, is about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Lawnton Elementary School ranks 4th in a group of 6 nearby schools.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 310, starting from 317. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.5:1, from 13.8:1.
Community posts for Lawnton Elementary School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Dauphin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
289,593
Census ACS
Median income
$76,242
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
72,718 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Central Dauphin SD
- Central Dauphin SHSHigh · 1,966 students
- Central Dauphin East SHSHigh · 1,573 students
- Linglestown Middle SchoolMiddle · 841 students
- Central Dauphin Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
- North Side Elementary SchoolElementary · 722 students
- Central Dauphin East Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
Other schools in Harrisburg
- Commonwealth Charter Academy CSCombined · 29,320 students
- Reach Cyber CSCombined · 5,721 students
- Central Dauphin SHSHigh · 1,966 students
- Central Dauphin East SHSHigh · 1,573 students
- Harrisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,343 students
- Dauphin County Technical SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
Nearby schools
- Reach Cyber CS0.8 mi · 5,721
- Paxtang Elementary School1.2 mi · 281
- South Side Elementary School1.3 mi · 603
- Swatara Middle School1.5 mi · 611
- Chambers Hill Elementary School1.7 mi · 257
- Central Dauphin East SHS1.7 mi · 1,573
Frequently asked questions
About Lawnton Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lawnton Elementary School?
Lawnton Elementary School enrolls approximately 310 students in grades KG-05.
Is Lawnton Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lawnton Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Lawnton Elementary School?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at Lawnton Elementary School.
How diverse is Lawnton Elementary School?
Lawnton Elementary School reports a student body of 9% White, 14% Hispanic, 20% Black, 47% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Lawnton Elementary School in?
Lawnton Elementary School is part of Central Dauphin SD.
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