Enrollment
287
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CONESTOGA VALLEY SD·NCES 420648002522
Leola Elementary School
2426 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster, PA 17602 · (717) 656-2068 · Lancaster County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL287 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
8.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
209 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Conestoga Valley SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
33.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.6pp since 2023
Math
43.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.1% | 43.4% |
| 2023-24 | 42.7% | 36.9% |
% 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
42.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Leola Elementary School
Leola Elementary School's state test result (42.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leola Elementary School this school | 287 | 72.8% | 42.2% |
| Lee Park Elementary School Hanover Township | 322 | 71.4% | 39.6% |
| Wilson Borough Elementary School Easton | 285 | 64.6% | 61.4% |
| Hanover Street Elementary School Hanover | 269 | 72.9% | 62.7% |
| Hanover Green Elementary School Hanover Township | 318 | 76.4% | N/A |
| Arlington Heights Elementary School Stroudsburg | 215 | 76.3% | 49.8% |
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 Leola Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lancaster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #1,035 of 1,396 | #50 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #935 of 1,511 ▲ 74 | #46 of 62 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #1,146 of 1,511 ▼ 69 | #53 of 62 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 287 | #1,291 of 1,638 | #58 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.1:1 | #7 of 1,528 | #1 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.5% | #145 of 1,531 | #4 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.8% | #725 of 1,600 | #18 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.5% | #73 of 1,045 | #4 of 49 |
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
287
-5 (-2%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 372
Student : Teacher
8.1:1
was 8.6:1
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 | 287 | 35.3 | 8.1:1 | 73% (209) |
| 2023-24 | 321 | 34.3 | 9.3:1 | 65% (209) |
| 2022-23 | 327 | 32.3 | 10.1:1 | 63% (206) |
| 2020-21 | 292 | 34 | 8.6:1 | 49% (144) |
| 2017-18 | 438 | 34.5 | 12.7:1 | 48% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 412 | 31 | 13.3:1 | 53% (217) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 34 | 12.8:1 | 41% (178) |
| 2000-01 | 364 | 22 | 16.6:1 | 21% (78) |
| 1990-91 | 372 | 20 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Leola Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (438 to 287); teachers up 2% (34.5 to 35.3).
About Leola Elementary School
Leola Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The latest federal count shows 287 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 443 students, so this school is 35% smaller than average.
Conestoga Valley SD oversees Leola Elementary School and 5 other schools, with 3,830 students in total.
The most common group at Leola Elementary School is White students, at 46%. The school is also 31% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Black, and 4% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 82%. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
At Leola Elementary School, 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 8.1:1. That is lower than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Roughly 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 55% average for public schools in Lancaster County is 18 points.
Leola Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 27% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Leola Elementary School, the prediction is 46.4% and the result is 42.2%.
Among Lancaster County residents, the median household income is $86,959, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Leola Elementary School is one of 114 public schools in the county.
Gerald G Huesken Middle School is the public school closest to Leola Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Leola Elementary School ranks 7th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 42.2% against a local average of 56.8%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, Leola Elementary School enrolled 292; in 2024-25, 287.
Discussions about Leola Elementary School may include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Lancaster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
557,931
Census ACS
Median income
$86,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
114
62,719 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Conestoga Valley SD
- Conestoga Valley SHSHigh · 1,304 students
- Gerald G Huesken Middle SchoolMiddle · 851 students
- Fritz Elementary SchoolElementary · 526 students
- Smoketown Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Brownstown Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
Other schools in Lancaster
- McCaskey CampusHigh · 2,600 students
- Manheim Twp High SchoolHigh · 1,953 students
- Conestoga Valley SHSHigh · 1,304 students
- Landis Run Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 929 students
- Manheim Twp Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
- Gerald G Huesken Middle SchoolMiddle · 851 students
Other Leola Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Leola Elementary. Leola Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Leola Elementary - 02Leola, SD · 57 students
Nearby schools
- Gerald G Huesken Middle School0.8 mi · 851
- Conestoga Valley SHS1.0 mi · 1,304
- Smoketown Elementary School1.0 mi · 470
- Lampeter Elementary School3.1 mi · 375
- Fritz Elementary School3.1 mi · 526
- Lampeter-Strasburg Early Childhood Center3.2 mi · 185
Frequently asked questions
About Leola Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Leola Elementary School?
Leola Elementary School enrolls approximately 287 students in grades KG-05.
Is Leola Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Leola Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Leola Elementary School?
Approximately 8.1:1 students per teacher at Leola Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Leola Elementary School?
At Leola Elementary School, the student body is approximately 46% White, 31% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Leola Elementary School public or private?
Leola Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Conestoga Valley SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.