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If you could change one rule at New Salem El Sch, what would it be?
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Enrollment
403
Elementary
DISTRICT 478 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRING GROVE AREA SD·NCES 422259004617
New Salem Elementary School
3745 Salem Rd, York, PA 17408 · (717) 225-4731 · York County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL403 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% 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.
- 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
15.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
150 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 26% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (64).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
New Salem Elementary School→Spring Grove Area Intrmd School→Spring Grove Area Middle School→Spring Grove Area High School
Based on grade levels within Spring Grove Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
54.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -15.6pp since 2023
Math
77.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.3% | 77.8% |
| 2023-24 | 69.9% | 74.1% |
% 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
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 New Salem Elementary School
New Salem Elementary School's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Salem Elementary School this school | 403 | 37.2% | 72.0% |
| Hahntown Elementary School North Huntingdon | 419 | 37.5% | 83.1% |
| Friendship Elementary School Glen Rock | 377 | 38.2% | 56.0% |
| North Pocono Intmd School Moscow | 445 | 36.9% | 61.7% |
| Twin Valley El Center Elverson | 395 | 37.2% | 65.8% |
| West Point Elementary School Greensburg | 372 | 35.2% | 73.4% |
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 New Salem Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #254 of 1,396 | #7 of 62 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.8% | #143 of 1,511 ▲ 32 | #3 of 62 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #606 of 1,511 ▼ 257 | #25 of 62 ▼ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 403 | #872 of 1,638 | #31 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #1,314 of 1,528 | #58 of 63 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.5% | #1,086 of 1,531 | #50 of 63 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.2% | #1,203 of 1,600 | #49 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #842 of 1,045 | #30 of 42 |
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
403
-9 (-2%) vs 2020
+32% since 1990-91, when it was 306
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 403 | 26.3 | 15.3:1 | 37% (150) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 24.2 | 17.1:1 | 36% (150) |
| 2022-23 | 414 | 24.7 | 16.8:1 | 33% (136) |
| 2020-21 | 412 | 26 | 15.8:1 | 25% (105) |
| 2017-18 | 425 | 25.7 | 16.6:1 | 29% (123) |
| 2015-16 | 435 | 25 | 17.4:1 | 33% (142) |
| 2010-11 | 422 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 23% (99) |
| 2000-01 | 421 | 21 | 20.1:1 | 16% (66) |
| 1990-91 | 306 | 16 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for New Salem Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (425 to 403); teachers up 2% (25.7 to 26.3).
About New Salem Elementary School
New Salem Elementary School is an elementary school in York, Pennsylvania, reachable at (717) 225-4731. The school teaches kindergarten through 4 and enrolls 403 students.
Federal data list 6 schools in Spring Grove Area SD, with 3,854 students enrolled.
At New Salem Elementary School, 87% of students are White. The remaining students are 5% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 24%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1. The school has 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 2.3 students per teacher. In all, 37% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in York County is 53%.
New Salem Elementary School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 84% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
New Salem Elementary School scores 72.0% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 61.6%.
Looking at the county, York County, the median household earns about $84,829 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. York County has 111 public schools with about 64,242 students, including New Salem Elementary School.
Indian Rock Elementary School, about 3.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 54.3%; New Salem Elementary School's is 72.0%, ranking 2nd of 9.
New Salem Elementary School has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 403, starting from 412.
The New Salem Elementary School discussion page is a place for open houses, carpools, and field trips. You can also rate the school on this page.
York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
462,924
Census ACS
Median income
$84,829
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
64,242 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Spring Grove Area SD
- Spring Grove Area High SchoolHigh · 1,163 students
- Spring Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 724 students
- Spring Grove Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 650 students
- Spring Grove Area Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 608 students
- Paradise Elementary SchoolElementary · 306 students
Other schools in York
- Central York High SchoolHigh · 1,756 students
- William Penn SHSHigh · 1,681 students
- York County School of TechnologyHigh · 1,615 students
- Dallastown Area Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,519 students
- York Academy Regional CSCombined · 1,058 students
- York Suburban SHSHigh · 859 students
Other New Salem Elementary schools
One other US public school is named New Salem Elementary. New Salem Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- New Salem ElementaryMarshville, NC · 249 students
Nearby schools
- Indian Rock Elementary School3.5 mi · 314
- Lincolnway Elementary School3.5 mi · 406
- Spring Grove Area Intrmd School4.2 mi · 608
- Spring Grove Area Middle School4.2 mi · 650
- Leaders Heights Elementary School4.3 mi · 140
- Spring Grove Elementary School4.3 mi · 724
Frequently asked questions
About New Salem Elementary SchoolHow many students attend New Salem Elementary School?
New Salem Elementary School enrolls approximately 403 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does New Salem Elementary School serve?
New Salem Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at New Salem Elementary School?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at New Salem Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at New Salem Elementary School?
Student demographics at New Salem Elementary School are roughly 87% White, 3% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is New Salem Elementary School in?
New Salem Elementary School is part of Spring Grove Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.