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7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Price
Set in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, Price is a very small four-year high school, part of Lower Dauphin SD. It caters to 7 students across grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 99% leaner than the state mean of about 738.
Price is one of 8 schools operated by Lower Dauphin SD, a district that teaches 3,339 students overall.
Demographically, Price reports that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest comes out to 14% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Dauphin County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,242, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Dauphin County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), of which Price is one.
Lower Dauphin HS 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.
Price operates from a residential location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 59%: 17 students in 2018 compared to 7 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 12% to 0%. Class-load math has tightened: from 8.1:1 in 2018 to 3.3:1 in 2025.
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