Lenkerville Elementary School
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2023-24 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 55 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24About Lenkerville Elementary School
Lenkerville Elementary School operates as an intimate elementary campus in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Millersburg Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 324 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Lenkerville Elementary School sits 27% below that benchmark.
Across the 4 schools in Millersburg Area SD (1,029 students total), Lenkerville Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Lenkerville Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dauphin County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Lenkerville Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Dauphin County's rate of about 59%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lenkerville Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.2%; this one delivers 63.2%.
In the surrounding community, Dauphin County reports that median household income runs about $76,242, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Dauphin County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), of which Lenkerville Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Millersburg Area Middle School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lenkerville Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Over the past 6-year window. Lenkerville Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 324). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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