Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS

Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS is an intimate elementary campus in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, part of Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS. The school works with 360 students in grades K through 5.

Operationally, Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS answers to Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS higher than the state norm the norm. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dauphin County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dauphin County shows median household earnings sit near $76,242, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Dauphin County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), of which Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS is one.

Benjamin Franklin Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. Pennsylvania STEAM Academy CS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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