Lee Park El Sch

Lee Park El Sch is one of the compact K-5 schools in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, run under Hanover Area SD, with 322 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 4. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 27% below typical.

Hanover Area SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,204 students. Lee Park El Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Lee Park El Sch shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Luzerne County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Luzerne County's rate of about 85%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lee Park El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 39.6%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Luzerne County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,691 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Luzerne County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,209 students), of which Lee Park El Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Hanover Area Memorial El Sch, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lee Park El Sch comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

Lee Park El Sch operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 307 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 66% to 47% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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