Shallow Brook Inter Sch

Set in Manchester, Pennsylvania, Shallow Brook Inter Sch is a moderately sized middle school, part of Northeastern York SD. It instructs 507 students across grades 4 through 6.

Within Northeastern York SD, which oversees 8 schools and 3,971 students, Shallow Brook Inter Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Shallow Brook Inter Sch shows that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, York County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Shallow Brook Inter Sch higher than the state norm the norm. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Shallow Brook Inter Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 54.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (York County) records that the typical household earns roughly $84,829 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, York County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), of which Shallow Brook Inter Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Orendorf El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shallow Brook Inter Sch. On composite proficiency, Shallow Brook Inter Sch comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 9%: 465 students in 2018 compared to 507 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 69% across the same window.

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