N Hopewell-Winterstown El Sch

N Hopewell-Winterstown El Sch, a compact primary school in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Red Lion Area SD, serves 240 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 46% below the state mean of about 443.

Red Lion Area SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,546 students; N Hopewell-Winterstown El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, N Hopewell-Winterstown El Sch logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, N Hopewell-Winterstown El Sch has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against York County (around 53%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, N Hopewell-Winterstown El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.1%; this one delivers 53.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (York County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $84,829 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. N Hopewell-Winterstown El Sch is one of 111 public schools in York County (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students).

Nearest neighbor: Red Lion Area JHS, around 3.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, N Hopewell-Winterstown El Sch comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 265 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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