Southwest El Sch

Southwest El Sch operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, part of Lebanon SD. Current enrollment sits at 390 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Lebanon SD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,754 students. Southwest El Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Southwest El Sch reports that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 18% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, On paper, Southwest El Sch has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Southwest El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 106% of students at Southwest El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lebanon County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lebanon County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,425, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Southwest El Sch is one of 37 public schools in Lebanon County (combined enrollment of about 18,804 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lebanon SHS, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southwest El Sch has decreased 19%, going from 483 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 63% to 75%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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