Melrose Sch

Melrose Sch is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, overseen by Harrisburg City SD. The school hosts 536 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Melrose Sch sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Harrisburg City SD comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,462 students; Melrose Sch is among them.

Demographically, Melrose Sch records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 37% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Melrose Sch higher than the state norm the norm. About 113% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Dauphin County's rate of about 59%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dauphin County shows median household earnings sit near $76,242, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Dauphin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), Melrose Sch is one campus in the mix.

Rowland Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Melrose Sch.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Melrose Sch has fell 14%, going from 622 students in 2018 to 536 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 54% to 37%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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