Paradise El Sch

Paradise El Sch operates as an intimate elementary school in Thomasville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Spring Grove Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 306 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Paradise El Sch sits 31% below that benchmark.

Spring Grove Area SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,854 students; Paradise El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Paradise El Sch lists that nearly all students (91%) are White; the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 55% of students at Paradise El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Paradise El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.1%.

Across the wider county, York County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,829, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, York County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), of which Paradise El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Spring Grove Area HS, around 3.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Paradise El Sch. On composite proficiency, Paradise El Sch comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 345 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.