Lincolnway El Sch

Lincolnway El Sch is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in York, Pennsylvania, run under West York Area SD, with 406 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 3.

Lincolnway El Sch is one of 5 schools operated by West York Area SD, a district that instructs 2,750 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Lincolnway El Sch records that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 26% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 9% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lincolnway El Sch has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lincolnway El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Across the wider county, York County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,829 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lincolnway El Sch is one of 111 public schools in York County (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students).

Nearest neighbor: West York Area HS, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincolnway El Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Lincolnway El Sch's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 406). The White share of enrollment decreased from 66% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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