Enrollment
317
Elementary
DISTRICT 299 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOWER DAUPHIN SD·NCES 421410001774
Nye Elementary School
200 S John St, Hummelstown, PA 17036 · (717) 566-0300 · Dauphin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL317 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.5:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
125 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
53.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.8pp since 2023
Math
52.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.1% | 52.8% |
| 2023-24 | 62.9% | 56.3% |
% 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
58.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Nye Elementary School
Nye Elementary School's state test result (58.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nye Elementary School this school | 317 | 39.4% | 58.1% |
| Penn Bernville Elementary School Bernville | 302 | 41.1% | 50.8% |
| Hamilton Twp Elementary School Sciota | 305 | 40.7% | 63.3% |
| Richland Elementary School Quakertown | 327 | 39.8% | 51.7% |
| Honey Brook El Center Honey Brook | 289 | 42.9% | 62.8% |
| Letort Elementary School Washington Boro | 325 | 36.0% | 78.1% |
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 Nye Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Dauphin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #646 of 1,396 | #14 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #726 of 1,511 ▼ 138 | #14 of 36 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #642 of 1,511 ▼ 108 | #12 of 36 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 317 | #1,185 of 1,638 | #30 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #587 of 1,528 | #14 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.8% | #770 of 1,531 | #32 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.4% | #1,173 of 1,600 | #28 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.9% | #565 of 1,045 | #7 of 17 |
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
317
-12 (-4%) vs 2020
+44% since 1990-91, when it was 220
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 317 | 25.4 | 12.5:1 | 39% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 316 | 24.6 | 12.9:1 | 40% (125) |
| 2022-23 | 315 | 24.7 | 12.7:1 | 38% (120) |
| 2020-21 | 329 | 25 | 13.2:1 | 31% (103) |
| 2017-18 | 360 | 25.2 | 14.3:1 | 29% (105) |
| 2015-16 | 363 | 24 | 15.1:1 | 28% (101) |
| 2010-11 | 355 | 26 | 13.7:1 | 24% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 330 | 20 | 16.5:1 | 16% (52) |
| 1990-91 | 220 | 15 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nye Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (360 to 317); teachers up 1% (25.2 to 25.4).
About Nye Elementary School
Nye Elementary School is a small elementary school located in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. The school's 317 students are in kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 28% lower than the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, which is about 443.
The district for Nye Elementary School is Lower Dauphin SD, with 8 schools and 3,339 students.
White students are the majority at Nye Elementary School, with 76% of enrollment. The school is also 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 63%. Nye Elementary School's diversity index is 40%, against a US figure of 70%.
Nye Elementary School's 25.4 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 12.5:1. That is close to the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 39%. That is lower than the 59% average for public schools in Dauphin County.
allk12 grades Nye Elementary School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with Pennsylvania schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Nye Elementary School's results are 2.6 points below predicted: 58.1% against 60.7%.
Dauphin County has these Census figures: the median household income is $76,242, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. In all, Dauphin County has 75 public schools and roughly 72,718 students.
Price is the closest public school, about 0.4 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 54.2% proficiency; Nye Elementary School posts 58.1%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Nye Elementary School's enrollment declined 4%, to 317.
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Dauphin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
289,593
Census ACS
Median income
$76,242
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
72,718 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lower Dauphin SD
- Lower Dauphin High SchoolHigh · 1,057 students
- Lower Dauphin Middle SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- South Hanover Elementary SchoolElementary · 371 students
- East Hanover Elementary SchoolElementary · 333 students
- Conewago Elementary SchoolElementary · 239 students
- Londonderry Elementary SchoolElementary · 234 students
Other schools in Hummelstown
- Lower Dauphin High SchoolHigh · 1,057 students
- Lower Dauphin Middle SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- PriceHigh · 7 students
Other Nye Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Nye Elementary. Nye Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Nye Elementary SchoolLAREDO, TX · 685 students
- Nye ElementarySan Diego, CA · 385 students
Nearby schools
- Price0.4 mi · 7
- Lower Dauphin High School0.4 mi · 1,057
- Lower Dauphin Middle School0.8 mi · 781
- South Hanover Elementary School2.5 mi · 371
- Rutherford Elementary School3.3 mi · 461
- Chambers Hill Elementary School3.5 mi · 257
Frequently asked questions
About Nye Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Nye Elementary School?
Nye Elementary School enrolls approximately 317 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Nye Elementary School serve?
Nye Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Nye Elementary School have?
Nye Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Nye Elementary School?
At Nye Elementary School, the student body is approximately 76% White, 14% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Nye Elementary School?
Nye Elementary School is overseen by Lower Dauphin SD in Dauphin County.
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