Enrollment
372
Elementary
DISTRICT 334 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARLISLE AREA SD·NCES 420501001690
Mooreland Elementary School
329 Wilson St, Carlisle, PA 17013 · (717) 240-6800 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL372 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
14.9:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
229 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 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
68%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
56.4%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
49.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.4% | 49.2% |
| 2023-24 | 56.4% | 46.4% |
% 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
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Mooreland Elementary School
Mooreland Elementary School's state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mooreland Elementary School this school | 372 | 61.6% | 54.6% |
| Bellaire Elementary School Carlisle | 407 | 60.0% | 59.7% |
| Kunkel Elementary School Middletown | 369 | 59.9% | 61.2% |
| Blair Mill Elementary Hatboro | 361 | 53.7% | 60.5% |
| Washington Heights Elementary School Lemoyne | 324 | 68.5% | 50.0% |
| Yorkshire Elementary School York | 317 | 56.2% | N/A |
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 Mooreland Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #742 of 1,396 | #25 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #816 of 1,511 ▲ 23 | #27 of 34 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #536 of 1,511 ▲ 200 | #16 of 34 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 372 | #990 of 1,638 | #22 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,250 of 1,528 | #24 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.0% | #135 of 1,531 | #6 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.6% | #804 of 1,600 | #8 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.9% | #127 of 450 | #4 of 10 |
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
372
+56 (+18%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 409
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 372 | 24.9 | 14.9:1 | 62% (229) |
| 2023-24 | 388 | 26.5 | 14.6:1 | 59% (229) |
| 2022-23 | 368 | 24.4 | 15.1:1 | 52% (193) |
| 2020-21 | 316 | 21 | 15.1:1 | 50% (158) |
| 2017-18 | 321 | 20.9 | 15.3:1 | 35% (111) |
| 2015-16 | 312 | 19 | 16.4:1 | 28% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 291 | 17 | 17.1:1 | 20% (59) |
| 2000-01 | 300 | 24 | 12.5:1 | 19% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 409 | 22 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mooreland Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (321 to 372); teachers up 19% (20.9 to 24.9).
About Mooreland Elementary School
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, part of Cumberland County, Mooreland Elementary School is an elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 372 students.
Carlisle Area SD counts 10 schools and 5,087 students, including Mooreland Elementary School.
White students account for 50% of enrollment at Mooreland Elementary School, more than any other group. Other students are 20% Hispanic, 12% Black, 9% Asian, and 9% multiracial. By comparison, Cumberland County residents are about 82% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Mooreland Elementary School scores 68%.
There are about 14.9 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Mooreland Elementary School, which has 24.9. The school's 14.9:1 compares with an average of 13.1:1 for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 62%. The gap from the 41% average for public schools in Cumberland County is 21 points.
Mooreland Elementary School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 48% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
In Pennsylvania, Mooreland Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 54.6% actual against a predicted 51.2%.
For Cumberland County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $87,494 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Public schools in Cumberland County number 57, with about 33,044 students.
Among nearby public schools, Carlisle Area High School is closest at about 0.8 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Mooreland Elementary School places 2nd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES describes the area around Mooreland Elementary School as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
An 18% increase took enrollment from 316 in 2020-21 to 372 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 Mooreland Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Mooreland Elementary. Mooreland Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Mooreland Elementary SchoolMooreland, OK · 401 students
Nearby schools
- Carlisle Area High School0.8 mi · 1,559
- Lamberton Middle School0.9 mi · 583
- Letort Elementary School0.9 mi · 225
- Wilson Middle School1.1 mi · 604
- Bellaire Elementary School1.3 mi · 407
- Hamilton Elementary School1.5 mi · 388
Frequently asked questions
About Mooreland Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mooreland Elementary School?
Mooreland Elementary School enrolls approximately 372 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Mooreland Elementary School serve?
Mooreland Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Mooreland Elementary School?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at Mooreland Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Mooreland Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mooreland Elementary School are roughly 50% White, 20% Hispanic, 12% Black, 9% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Mooreland Elementary School?
Mooreland Elementary School is overseen by Carlisle Area SD in Cumberland County.
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