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Enrollment
572
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILSON SD·NCES 422658007429
Shiloh Hills Elementary School
301 Sage Drive, Sinking Spring, PA 19608 · (610) 670-0180 · Berks County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL572 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
12.2:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
267 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 115 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
61.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
57.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.1% | 57.3% |
| 2023-24 | 64.1% | 52.4% |
% 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
61.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% 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 Shiloh Hills Elementary School
Shiloh Hills Elementary School's state test result (61.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shiloh Hills Elementary School this school | 572 | 46.7% | 61.6% |
| South Lebanon Elementary School Lebanon | 554 | 44.9% | 61.4% |
| Spring Garden Elementary School Bethlehem | 532 | 47.7% | 54.8% |
| Wyomissing Hills El Center Wyomissing | 615 | 41.1% | 66.5% |
| Whitfield Elementary School West Lawn | 573 | 40.5% | 61.6% |
| Smoketown Elementary School Lancaster | 470 | 49.6% | 48.6% |
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 Shiloh Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Berks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #536 of 1,396 | #6 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.3% | #612 of 1,511 ▲ 76 | #13 of 47 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #400 of 1,511 ▲ 89 | #1 of 47 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 572 | #328 of 1,638 | #14 of 48 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #497 of 1,528 | #18 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #378 of 1,531 | #7 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.7% | #1,051 of 1,600 | #27 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.8% | #337 of 450 | #12 of 14 |
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
572
+49 (+9%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 572 | 47 | 12.2:1 | 47% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 574 | 46 | 12.5:1 | 47% (267) |
| 2022-23 | 557 | 47 | 11.8:1 | 42% (232) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | 47 | 11.1:1 | 34% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 551 | 43 | 12.8:1 | 29% (159) |
| 2015-16 | 571 | 44 | 13.0:1 | 29% (164) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shiloh Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (551 to 572); teachers up 9% (43 to 47).
About Shiloh Hills Elementary School
Shiloh Hills Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, (ZIP code 19608). It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 572 students enrolled. That is 29% above the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Shiloh Hills Elementary School is among 8 schools run by Wilson SD, which serves 6,444 students.
White students are 57% of those enrolled at Shiloh Hills Elementary School. Next come 30% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black, and 4% Asian. That compares with about 70% White among all Berks County residents. A diversity index of 58% means there is a 58% chance two randomly chosen students at Shiloh Hills Elementary School are from different groups.
With 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Shiloh Hills Elementary School, 47% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 67% for public schools in Berks County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Shiloh Hills Elementary School outscored 58%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Pennsylvania schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Shiloh Hills Elementary School's results are 4.0 points above predicted: 61.6% against 57.6%.
In Berks County, the median household earns about $79,777 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Across Berks County, 95 public schools serve about 62,375 students.
Shiloh Hills Elementary School is about 2.3 miles from Cornwall Terrace Elementary School, its nearest public school. Shiloh Hills Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Shiloh Hills Elementary School ranks 1st of 9 nearby schools, at 61.6% versus a 49.8% average.
Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
The school's enrollment increased 9% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Students per teacher increased from 11.1 in 2020-21 to 12.2 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Shiloh Hills Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Berks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
433,015
Census ACS
Median income
$79,777
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
62,375 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wilson SD
- Wilson High SchoolHigh · 2,133 students
- Wilson West Middle SchoolMiddle · 780 students
- Wilson Southern Middle SchoolMiddle · 753 students
- Spring Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Whitfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 573 students
- Cornwall Terrace Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
Other schools in Sinking Spring
- Wilson West Middle SchoolMiddle · 780 students
- Wilson Southern Middle SchoolMiddle · 753 students
- Cornwall Terrace Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
- Green Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 505 students
Other Shiloh Hills Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Shiloh Hills Elementary. Shiloh Hills Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Shiloh Hills ElementarySPOKANE, WA · 465 students
Nearby schools
- Cornwall Terrace Elementary School2.3 mi · 553
- Wilson Southern Middle School2.3 mi · 753
- Brecknock Elementary School3.3 mi · 459
- Wilson High School3.4 mi · 2,133
- Whitfield Elementary School3.4 mi · 573
- Governor Mifflin Middle School3.5 mi · 631
Frequently asked questions
About Shiloh Hills Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Shiloh Hills Elementary School?
Shiloh Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 572 students in grades KG-05.
Is Shiloh Hills Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Shiloh Hills Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Shiloh Hills Elementary School?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Shiloh Hills Elementary School.
How diverse is Shiloh Hills Elementary School?
Shiloh Hills Elementary School reports a student body of 57% White, 30% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Shiloh Hills Elementary School?
Shiloh Hills Elementary School is overseen by Wilson SD in Berks County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.