Londonderry El Sch

Set in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Londonderry El Sch is a small primary school, one of the schools within Lower Dauphin SD. It serves 234 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Lower Dauphin SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,339 students; Londonderry El Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Londonderry El Sch records that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Londonderry El Sch has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Dauphin County's rate of about 59%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Londonderry El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Dauphin County indicate median household income runs about $76,242, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Dauphin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), Londonderry El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fink El Sch, roughly 2.5 miles away. 7 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), Londonderry El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 284 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 87% to 80% over that span.

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