Park El Sch

Park El Sch is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in Columbia, Pennsylvania, run under Columbia Borough SD, caters to 511 students in grades K through 4.

Columbia Borough SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,312 students. Park El Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Park El Sch records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 34% White, 12% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, Lancaster County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lancaster County) logs that median household income runs about $86,959, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Lancaster County runs 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), of which Park El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Columbia MS Taylor Campus, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Park El Sch's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 527 (now 511). The White share of enrollment decreased from 56% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.