Littlestown SHS

Located at 200 E Myrtle St, in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, Littlestown SHS is a small four-year high school that hosts 532 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Littlestown Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 28% leaner than the state mean of about 738.

Littlestown Area SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,691 students. Littlestown SHS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Littlestown SHS reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Littlestown SHS logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Adams County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Littlestown SHS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Adams County) records that median household income runs about $84,092, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Littlestown SHS is one of 26 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students).

The closest other public school is Alloway Creek El Sch, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Littlestown SHS ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 52.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 614 students in 2018 compared to 532 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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