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Enrollment
363
Elementary
DISTRICT 453 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYNESBORO AREA SD·NCES 422511005330
Summitview Elementary School
840 East Second Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268 · (717) 762-1191 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL363 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% 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.
- BBeats 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
15.4:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
217 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Waynesboro Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
47.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.3pp since 2023
Math
56.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.4% | 56.1% |
| 2023-24 | 59.7% | 54.6% |
% 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
58.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Summitview Elementary School
Summitview Elementary School's state test result (58.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summitview Elementary School this school | 363 | 59.8% | 58.0% |
| Blue Ball Elementary School East Earl | 374 | 57.2% | 56.1% |
| Washington Elementary School Bangor | 375 | 57.3% | 66.0% |
| Canadochly Elementary School East Prospect | 348 | 60.1% | 47.5% |
| Upper Dauphin Area Elementary School Lykens | 373 | 59.8% | 60.2% |
| S S Palmer Elementary School Palmerton | 399 | 58.6% | 46.7% |
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 Summitview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #650 of 1,396 | #8 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #651 of 1,511 ▼ 30 | #9 of 24 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #817 of 1,511 ▼ 185 | #14 of 24 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 363 | #1,012 of 1,638 | #10 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #1,318 of 1,528 | #14 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.9% | #813 of 1,531 | #14 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.8% | #821 of 1,600 | #20 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.6% | #49 of 1,045 | #1 of 18 |
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
363
-53 (-13%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 626
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 363 | 23.6 | 15.4:1 | 60% (217) |
| 2023-24 | 399 | 24.9 | 16.0:1 | 54% (217) |
| 2022-23 | 417 | 26.6 | 15.7:1 | 49% (203) |
| 2020-21 | 416 | 28 | 14.9:1 | 44% (181) |
| 2017-18 | 573 | 32 | 17.9:1 | 43% (247) |
| 2015-16 | 626 | 35 | 17.9:1 | 38% (240) |
| 2010-11 | 613 | 32 | 19.2:1 | 35% (215) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 33 | 16.9:1 | 23% (128) |
| 1990-91 | 626 | 33 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Summitview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 37% (573 to 363); teachers down 26% (32 to 23.6).
About Summitview Elementary School
At 840 East Second Street in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Summitview Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary school. It enrolled 363 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
A total of 6 schools make up Waynesboro Area SD, with 4,090 students enrolled.
Summitview Elementary School is 78% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Franklin County's population at about 87%. The school's diversity index is 38%, meaning two students picked at random have a 38% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Summitview Elementary School operates with 23.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 15.4:1. That is higher than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. About 60% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. That is 8 points below the 69% average for public schools in Franklin County.
Summitview Elementary School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 56% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Summitview Elementary School would score about 52.0%. It scores 58.0%, 6.0 points above that figure.
Census Bureau estimates for Franklin County show that the median household income is $77,003, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. There are 41 public schools in Franklin County, enrolling about 21,432 students in all.
The school nearest to Summitview Elementary School is Waynesboro Area Middle School, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 6. On average proficiency, Summitview Elementary School is 2nd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The federal government classifies Summitview Elementary School's location as Town: Fringe.
2024-25 enrollment was 363, a 13% decrease from 416 in 2020-21.
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Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
157,379
Census ACS
Median income
$77,003
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
21,432 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Waynesboro Area SD
- Waynesboro Area Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,392 students
- Waynesboro Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 887 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
- Mowrey Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Hooverville Elementary SchoolElementary · 317 students
Other schools in Waynesboro
- Waynesboro Area Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,392 students
- Waynesboro Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 887 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
- Mowrey Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Hooverville Elementary SchoolElementary · 317 students
Other Summitview Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Summitview Elementary. Summitview Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Summitview ElementaryYakima, WA · 475 students
Nearby schools
- Waynesboro Area Middle School0.2 mi · 887
- Waynesboro Area Senior High School0.4 mi · 1,392
- Hooverville Elementary School1.5 mi · 317
- Fairview Elementary School1.5 mi · 597
- Cascade Elementary4.5 mi · 137
- Mowrey Elementary School4.8 mi · 534
Frequently asked questions
About Summitview Elementary SchoolHow large is Summitview Elementary School?
Summitview Elementary School enrolls approximately 363 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Summitview Elementary School serve?
Summitview Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Summitview Elementary School?
Approximately 15.4:1 students per teacher at Summitview Elementary School.
How diverse is Summitview Elementary School?
Summitview Elementary School reports a student body of 78% White, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Summitview Elementary School in?
Summitview Elementary School is part of Waynesboro Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.