Mt Holly Springs El Sch

Set in Mt Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, Mt Holly Springs El Sch is a cozy elementary-level community, run under Carlisle Area SD. It teaches 215 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Mt Holly Springs El Sch sits 51% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Carlisle Area SD, which oversees 10 schools and 5,087 students, Mt Holly Springs El Sch is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mt Holly Springs El Sch lists that White students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Mt Holly Springs El Sch has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Mt Holly Springs El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at Mt Holly Springs El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mt Holly Springs El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -14.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cumberland County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Mt Holly Springs El Sch is one of 57 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students).

The closest other public school is W.G. Rice El Sch, roughly 0.9 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mt Holly Springs El Sch ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 216 students in 2018 compared to 215 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 84% to 77%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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