Enrollment
346
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOLANCO SD·NCES 422181002655
Quarryville Elementary School
211 S Hess St, Quarryville, PA 17566 · (717) 786-2546 · Lancaster County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL346 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
11.5:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
159 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
41.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -18.9pp since 2023
Math
37.5%
PA avg 43.0% . -13.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.3% | 37.5% |
| 2023-24 | 60.2% | 50.6% |
% 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
51.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Quarryville Elementary School
Quarryville Elementary School's state test result (51.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quarryville Elementary School this school | 346 | 46.0% | 51.3% |
| Reamstown Elementary School Reamstown | 375 | 47.7% | 64.2% |
| Lampeter Elementary School Lampeter | 375 | 49.6% | N/A |
| Perry Elementary School Shoemakersville | 327 | 43.4% | 57.9% |
| Halifax Area Elementary School Halifax | 349 | 50.4% | 53.6% |
| Newberry Elementary School Etters | 286 | 45.8% | 51.9% |
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 Quarryville Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lancaster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #842 of 1,396 | #44 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #1,037 of 1,511 ▼ 292 | #49 of 62 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #983 of 1,511 ▼ 363 | #49 of 62 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 346 | #1,081 of 1,638 | #46 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #303 of 1,528 | #12 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.8% | #983 of 1,531 | #56 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.0% | #1,058 of 1,600 | #46 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.4% | #339 of 1,045 | #21 of 49 |
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
346
-64 (-16%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 610
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 346 | 30.1 | 11.5:1 | 46% (159) |
| 2023-24 | 336 | 26.1 | 12.8:1 | 47% (159) |
| 2022-23 | 361 | 26.6 | 13.6:1 | 47% (170) |
| 2020-21 | 410 | 26 | 15.8:1 | 43% (175) |
| 2017-18 | 424 | 28.3 | 15.0:1 | 41% (175) |
| 2015-16 | 450 | 30 | 15.0:1 | 44% (199) |
| 2010-11 | 471 | 31 | 15.2:1 | 31% (148) |
| 2000-01 | 504 | 23 | 21.9:1 | 18% (89) |
| 1990-91 | 610 | 27 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Quarryville Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (424 to 346); teachers up 7% (28.3 to 30.1).
About Quarryville Elementary School
The public elementary school Quarryville Elementary School is located in Quarryville, Pennsylvania. The school enrolls 346 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 443, and this school is 22% below that mark.
Solanco SD enrolls 3,000 students, and its 7 schools include Quarryville Elementary School.
The share of White students at Quarryville Elementary School is 83%. Enrollment also includes 11% Hispanic and 3% Black. In Lancaster County overall, the White share is about 82%. The diversity index for Quarryville Elementary School is 30%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Quarryville Elementary School reported 30.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 11.5:1. The school's 11.5:1 compares with an average of 13.1:1 for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Roughly 46% of students at Quarryville Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 55% average among public schools in Lancaster County.
On the allk12 Grade, Quarryville Elementary School lands at C, ahead of 33% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Quarryville Elementary School is 6.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (51.3% versus 57.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
The county, Lancaster County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $86,959 a year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Quarryville Elementary School, Lancaster County has 114 public schools.
The closest school to Quarryville Elementary School is Smith Middle School, located about 0.6 miles away. There are 4 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Quarryville Elementary School at 5th of 9.
The federal government classifies Quarryville Elementary School's location as Rural: Distant.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 16% drop, from 410 to 346. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 15.8:1 in 2020-21 to 11.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Lancaster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
557,931
Census ACS
Median income
$86,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
114
62,719 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Solanco SD
- Solanco High SchoolHigh · 980 students
- Clermont Elementary SchoolElementary · 398 students
- Providence Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
- Smith Middle SchoolMiddle · 367 students
- Swift Middle SchoolMiddle · 326 students
- Bart-Colerain Elementary SchoolElementary · 197 students
Other schools in Quarryville
- Solanco High SchoolHigh · 980 students
- Clermont Elementary SchoolElementary · 398 students
- Smith Middle SchoolMiddle · 367 students
- Swift Middle SchoolMiddle · 326 students
Nearby schools
- Smith Middle School0.6 mi · 367
- Solanco High School1.9 mi · 980
- Providence Elementary School3.0 mi · 386
- Bart-Colerain Elementary School4.5 mi · 197
- Swift Middle School5.8 mi · 326
- Clermont Elementary School5.9 mi · 398
Frequently asked questions
About Quarryville Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Quarryville Elementary School?
Quarryville Elementary School enrolls approximately 346 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Quarryville Elementary School serve?
Quarryville Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Quarryville Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Quarryville Elementary School is approximately 11.5:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Quarryville Elementary School?
Student demographics at Quarryville Elementary School are roughly 83% White, 11% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Quarryville Elementary School in?
Quarryville Elementary School is part of Solanco SD.
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