Quarryville El Sch

Quarryville El Sch is a K-5 school of intimate scale in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, overseen by Solanco SD, instructing 346 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Quarryville El Sch sits 22% below that benchmark.

Quarryville El Sch is one of 7 schools operated by Solanco SD, a district that teaches 3,000 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Quarryville El Sch lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 3% Black. Compared to Lancaster County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Quarryville El Sch has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Quarryville El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Lancaster County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Quarryville El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lancaster County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $86,959 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Lancaster County's 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), Quarryville El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Smith MS, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Quarryville El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Quarryville El Sch at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Quarryville El Sch's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 424 (now 346). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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