Enrollment
225
Elementary
DISTRICT 334 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARLISLE AREA SD·NCES 420501001683
Letort Elementary School
110 E South St, Carlisle, PA 17013 · (717) 240-6800 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL225 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% 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
12.1:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
152 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
46.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
31.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.2% | 31.8% |
| 2023-24 | 51.3% | 37.5% |
% 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
44.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Letort Elementary School
Letort Elementary School's state test result (44.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letort Elementary School this school | 225 | 67.6% | 44.2% |
| B F Morey Elementary School Stroudsburg | 228 | 66.2% | 46.0% |
| Washington Heights Elementary School Lemoyne | 324 | 68.5% | 50.0% |
| Linwood Elementary School Linwood | 249 | 78.7% | 41.1% |
| Washington Elementary School Hanover | 213 | 64.8% | 62.4% |
| Parkside Elementary School Parkside | 252 | 54.0% | 60.5% |
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 Letort Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.2% | #993 of 1,396 | #32 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.8% | #1,127 of 1,511 ▼ 129 | #33 of 34 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.2% | #846 of 1,511 ▲ 42 | #27 of 34 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 225 | #1,475 of 1,638 | #33 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #463 of 1,528 | #5 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.5% | #88 of 1,531 | #2 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.6% | #743 of 1,600 | #3 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #662 of 1,045 | #13 of 21 |
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
225
-11 (-5%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 305
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 225 | 18.6 | 12.1:1 | 68% (152) |
| 2023-24 | 242 | 17.6 | 13.7:1 | 63% (152) |
| 2022-23 | 231 | 17.6 | 13.2:1 | 61% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 236 | 18 | 13.1:1 | 63% (149) |
| 2017-18 | 249 | 17.2 | 14.4:1 | 53% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 277 | 17 | 16.3:1 | 56% (154) |
| 2010-11 | 246 | 17 | 14.5:1 | 52% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 200 | 13 | 15.4:1 | 34% (68) |
| 1990-91 | 305 | 16 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Letort Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (249 to 225); teachers up 8% (17.2 to 18.6).
About Letort Elementary School
At 110 E South St in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Letort Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary school. Its 225 students are spread across kindergarten through 5. The school's enrollment is 49% smaller than the 443 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Letort Elementary School reports to Carlisle Area SD, which has 10 schools and 5,087 students.
Enrollment at Letort Elementary School is mixed, with White students the largest group at 45%. After that, the student body is 20% Black, 17% multiracial, 15% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. Census figures show Cumberland County is about 82% White. Letort Elementary School has a diversity index of 71%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 18.6 full-time equivalents, or about 12.1 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the typical ratio is 13.1:1. About 68% of students, or 152, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Cumberland County, the average eligibility rate is 41%.
Letort Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 29% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Letort Elementary School is -4.4 points: 44.2% actual, 48.6% predicted.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cumberland County show that median household income is about $87,494, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 57 public schools in Cumberland County, with a combined enrollment of about 33,044.
The nearest other public school, Lamberton Middle School, is about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 49.1%; Letort Elementary School's is 44.2%, ranking 6th of 9.
Letort Elementary School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Letort Elementary School had 236 students in 2020-21 and 225 in 2024-25, a 5% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.1:1 in 2020-21 to 12.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
268,323
Census ACS
Median income
$87,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
33,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Carlisle Area SD
- Carlisle Area High SchoolHigh · 1,559 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 604 students
- Lamberton Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Crestview Elementary SchoolElementary · 541 students
- Bellaire Elementary SchoolElementary · 407 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 388 students
Other schools in Carlisle
- Carlisle Area High SchoolHigh · 1,559 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 604 students
- Lamberton Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Crestview Elementary SchoolElementary · 541 students
- Middlesex Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
- Bellaire Elementary SchoolElementary · 407 students
Other Letort Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Letort Elementary. Letort Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Letort Elementary SchoolWashington Boro, PA · 325 students
Nearby schools
- Lamberton Middle School0.5 mi · 583
- Mooreland Elementary School0.9 mi · 372
- Hamilton Elementary School1.1 mi · 388
- Carlisle Area High School1.3 mi · 1,559
- Wilson Middle School1.5 mi · 604
- Bellaire Elementary School1.5 mi · 407
Frequently asked questions
About Letort Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Letort Elementary School?
Letort Elementary School enrolls approximately 225 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Letort Elementary School serve?
Letort Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Letort Elementary School?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Letort Elementary School.
How diverse is Letort Elementary School?
Letort Elementary School reports a student body of 45% White, 15% Hispanic, 20% Black, 4% Asian, 17% Two or more.
Who oversees Letort Elementary School?
Letort Elementary School is overseen by Carlisle Area SD in Cumberland County.
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