Enrollment
283
Elementary
DISTRICT 366 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANHEIM TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 421458000214
Neff School
21 Valley Rd, Lancaster, PA 17606 · (717) 569-8502 · Lancaster County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL283 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
14.2:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
97 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 61 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (60).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Manheim Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
64.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.7pp since 2023
Math
62.3%
PA avg 43.0% . -6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 62.3% |
| 2023-24 | 66.7% | 68.8% |
% 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
69.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Neff School
Neff School's state test result (69.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neff School this school | 283 | 34.3% | 69.4% |
| Asa Packer Elementary School Bethlehem | 314 | 33.8% | 58.0% |
| Shepherdstown Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 283 | 35.0% | 63.9% |
| York Avenue Elementary School Lansdale | 291 | 34.4% | 64.9% |
| Richland Elementary School Quakertown | 327 | 39.8% | 51.7% |
| Forge Road Elementary School Palmyra | 341 | 34.0% | 59.7% |
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 Neff School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lancaster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #300 of 1,396 | #7 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #469 of 1,511 ▼ 203 | #18 of 62 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #325 of 1,511 ▲ 93 | #10 of 62 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 283 | #1,305 of 1,638 | #59 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #1,123 of 1,528 | #50 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.0% | #540 of 1,531 | #29 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.3% | #1,266 of 1,600 | #60 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.3% | #430 of 1,045 | #25 of 49 |
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
283
-28 (-9%) vs 2020
-15% since 2000-01, when it was 334
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 283 | 19.9 | 14.2:1 | 34% (97) |
| 2023-24 | 274 | 17.9 | 15.3:1 | 35% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 279 | 20.1 | 13.9:1 | 32% (89) |
| 2020-21 | 311 | 19 | 16.4:1 | 22% (68) |
| 2017-18 | 334 | 21 | 15.9:1 | 24% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 330 | 20 | 16.5:1 | 24% (78) |
| 2010-11 | 422 | 25 | 16.9:1 | 26% (111) |
| 2000-01 | 334 | 20 | 16.7:1 | 16% (55) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Neff School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (334 to 283); teachers down 5% (21 to 19.9).
About Neff School
As a low-enrollment elementary school, Neff School serves students in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Federal data show 283 students enrolled in kindergarten through 4 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 36% below average.
Neff School is a school in Manheim Township SD. The district has 9 schools and 5,992 students.
More than half of enrollment at Neff School is White: 68%. Other groups make up 17% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 2% Black. Lancaster County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 50%.
The school lists 19.9 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is higher. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 34% of the student body. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Lancaster County is 55%.
On the allk12 Grade, Neff School lands at A-, ahead of 75% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Neff School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 69.4%, compared with a predicted 62.9%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Lancaster County show that median household income comes to about $86,959, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lancaster County counts 114 public schools with about 62,719 students.
Manheim Twp High School, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Neff School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 68.2%; Neff School's is 69.4%, ranking 3rd of 9.
In the federal locale system, Neff School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Neff School enrolled 311 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 283. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.2:1.
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Lancaster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
557,931
Census ACS
Median income
$86,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
114
62,719 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Manheim Township SD
- Manheim Twp High SchoolHigh · 1,953 students
- Landis Run Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 929 students
- Manheim Twp Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
- Reidenbaugh Elementary SchoolElementary · 488 students
- Nitrauer SchoolElementary · 468 students
- Bucher SchoolElementary · 403 students
Other schools in Lancaster
- McCaskey CampusHigh · 2,600 students
- Manheim Twp High SchoolHigh · 1,953 students
- Conestoga Valley SHSHigh · 1,304 students
- Landis Run Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 929 students
- Manheim Twp Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
- Gerald G Huesken Middle SchoolMiddle · 851 students
Nearby schools
- Manheim Twp High School0.3 mi · 1,953
- Manheim Twp Middle School0.3 mi · 914
- Landis Run Intermediate School0.5 mi · 929
- Nitrauer School1.5 mi · 468
- Reidenbaugh Elementary School1.9 mi · 488
- Bucher School1.9 mi · 403
Frequently asked questions
About Neff SchoolHow many students attend Neff School?
Neff School enrolls approximately 283 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Neff School serve?
Neff School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many teachers does Neff School have?
Neff School employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Neff School?
Student demographics at Neff School are roughly 68% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Neff School?
Neff School is overseen by Manheim Township SD in Lancaster County.
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