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Enrollment
580
Elementary
DISTRICT 587 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND VALLEY SD·NCES 420711001695
Sporting Hill Elementary School
210 S Sporting Hill Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 · (717) 761-5052 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL580 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% 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.
- CBeats 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
17.7:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
197 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 108 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
54.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -11.8pp since 2023
Math
55.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.1% | 55.1% |
| 2023-24 | 65.9% | 54.4% |
% 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
60.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Sporting Hill Elementary School
Sporting Hill Elementary School's state test result (60.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Hill Elementary School this school | 580 | 34.0% | 60.3% |
| Asbury Elementary School Fairview | 572 | 36.5% | 67.9% |
| Sabold Elementary School Springfield | 641 | 30.6% | 83.6% |
| Roundtown Elementary School York | 573 | 30.5% | 72.6% |
| Boyertown Elementary School Boyertown | 632 | 36.7% | 57.2% |
| McKinley School Elkins Park | 596 | 34.9% | 65.5% |
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 Sporting Hill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #586 of 1,396 | #16 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #664 of 1,511 ▼ 36 | #19 of 34 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #611 of 1,511 ▼ 167 | #18 of 34 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 580 | #306 of 1,638 | #6 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #1,490 of 1,528 | #35 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.0% | #625 of 1,531 | #26 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.0% | #1,272 of 1,600 | #27 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.3% | #277 of 1,045 | #6 of 21 |
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
580
+23 (+4%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 579
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 580 | 32.8 | 17.7:1 | 34% (197) |
| 2023-24 | 552 | 33.8 | 16.4:1 | 36% (197) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 32.7 | 17.0:1 | 34% (188) |
| 2020-21 | 557 | 38 | 14.7:1 | 25% (139) |
| 2017-18 | 728 | 38.5 | 18.9:1 | 29% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 696 | 39 | 17.9:1 | 27% (190) |
| 2010-11 | 547 | 33 | 16.6:1 | 16% (90) |
| 2000-01 | 594 | 37 | 16.1:1 | 9% (55) |
| 1990-91 | 579 | 29 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sporting Hill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (728 to 580); teachers down 15% (38.5 to 32.8).
About Sporting Hill Elementary School
Sporting Hill Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Federal data show 580 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 443.
Sporting Hill Elementary School is part of Cumberland Valley SD, where 11 schools serve 10,374 students.
White students are 72% of those enrolled at Sporting Hill Elementary School. The remaining shares are 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Cumberland County's population at about 82%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 46, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Sporting Hill Elementary School comes to 32.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.7:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1. Sporting Hill Elementary School counts 34% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Sporting Hill Elementary School outscored 47%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 63.0% for a school in Pennsylvania with Sporting Hill Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Sporting Hill Elementary School posts 60.3%.
The county, Cumberland County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $87,494, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county has 57 public schools and about 33,044 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Hampden Elementary School, is about 1.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Sporting Hill Elementary School places 6th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count increased 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The number of students per teacher increased from 14.7 to 17.7 over 4 years.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
268,323
Census ACS
Median income
$87,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
33,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland Valley SD
- Cumberland Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,163 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,403 students
- Eagle View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Winding Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,055 students
- Shaull Elementary SchoolElementary · 591 students
- Hampden Elementary SchoolElementary · 538 students
Other schools in Mechanicsburg
- Cumberland Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,163 students
- Mechanicsburg Area SHSHigh · 1,412 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,403 students
- Mechanicsburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Eagle View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Winding Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,055 students
Nearby schools
- Hampden Elementary School1.3 mi · 538
- Allen Middle School1.8 mi · 272
- Northside Elementary School2.0 mi · 221
- Kindergarten Academy2.0 mi · 321
- Elmwood Academy2.4 mi · 712
- Rossmoyne Elementary School2.5 mi · 417
Frequently asked questions
About Sporting Hill Elementary SchoolHow large is Sporting Hill Elementary School?
Sporting Hill Elementary School enrolls approximately 580 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Sporting Hill Elementary School serve?
Sporting Hill Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Sporting Hill Elementary School have?
Sporting Hill Elementary School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.7:1.
How diverse is Sporting Hill Elementary School?
Sporting Hill Elementary School reports a student body of 72% White, 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Sporting Hill Elementary School public or private?
Sporting Hill Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cumberland Valley SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.