Swift MS

Swift MS is one of the tight-knit middle-grades schools in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, run under Solanco SD, with 326 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 45% leaner than typical.

Across the 7 schools in Solanco SD (3,000 students total), Swift MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Swift MS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Lancaster County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Swift MS has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Swift MS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Swift MS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.0%; actual is 35.0%, a gap of -22.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lancaster County put the typical household earns roughly $86,959 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Lancaster County runs 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), of which Swift MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Clermont El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Swift MS. On composite proficiency, Swift MS comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Swift MS has contracted 22%, going from 418 students in 2018 to 326 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 5% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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