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Enrollment
792
Elementary
DISTRICT 775 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 422301001802
Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School
1910 Linglestown Rd, Harrisburg, PA 17110 · (717) 657-5158 · Dauphin County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL792 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
16.6:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
577 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 275 | 35% |
| Grade 4 | 252 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 265 | 33% |
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Susquehanna Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
20.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -10.2pp since 2023
Math
16.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.1% | 16.9% |
| 2023-24 | 30.3% | 16.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
24.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School
Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School's state test result (24.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School this school | 792 | 72.9% | 24.9% |
| Sara Lindemuth Elementary School Harrisburg | 758 | 73.2% | N/A |
| Pollock Robert B School Philadelphia | 845 | 88.2% | 36.1% |
| Aronimink Elementary School Drexel Hill | 626 | 84.3% | 42.3% |
| Hatfield Elementary School Hatfield | 501 | 65.3% | 49.7% |
| John Hancock Demonstration School Philadelphia | 895 | 85.3% | 45.2% |
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 Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Dauphin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.9% | #1,240 of 1,396 | #28 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #1,327 of 1,511 ▼ 16 | #31 of 36 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.1% | #1,355 of 1,511 ▼ 81 | #30 of 36 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 792 | #83 of 1,638 | #2 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,439 of 1,528 | #36 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.5% | #3 of 1,531 | #3 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.9% | #724 of 1,600 | #20 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.2% | #156 of 450 | #9 of 19 |
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
792
+96 (+14%) vs 2020
+43% since 1990-91, when it was 555
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 792 | 47.7 | 16.6:1 | 73% (577) |
| 2023-24 | 801 | 42 | 19.1:1 | 72% (577) |
| 2022-23 | 820 | 43 | 19.1:1 | 67% (547) |
| 2020-21 | 696 | 43 | 16.2:1 | 64% (445) |
| 2017-18 | 706 | 45 | 15.7:1 | 59% (418) |
| 2015-16 | 608 | 38 | 16.0:1 | 51% (312) |
| 2010-11 | 668 | 44 | 15.2:1 | 32% (211) |
| 2000-01 | 704 | 42 | 16.8:1 | 21% (147) |
| 1990-91 | 555 | 30 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (706 to 792); teachers up 6% (45 to 47.7).
About Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School
Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School is one of the public schools in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is a high-enrollment elementary school. Its grade span covers grades 3 through 5, with 792 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Susquehanna Township SD runs 4 schools with a combined 3,137 students. Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School is one of them.
The student body at Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 30%. Other groups include 21% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 17% White, and 13% multiracial. The county population is about 17% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 79%.
Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School has 47.7 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1. The school's 16.6:1 compares with an average of 13.1:1 for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The school has 73% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 59% average among public schools in Dauphin County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School outscored 9%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
A school in Pennsylvania with Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 46.4%. Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School scores 24.9%.
Census data for Dauphin County show median household income comes to about $76,242, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 75 public schools in the county, enrolling about 72,718, Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School among them.
Measured in a straight line, Sara Lindemuth Elementary School is about 2.3 miles from Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 24.9% is below the 33.0% average for nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment increased 14% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Dauphin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
289,593
Census ACS
Median income
$76,242
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
72,718 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Susquehanna Township SD
- Susquehanna Twp Middle SchoolMiddle · 820 students
- Susquehanna Twp High SchoolHigh · 767 students
- Sara Lindemuth Elementary SchoolElementary · 758 students
Other schools in Harrisburg
- Commonwealth Charter Academy CSCombined · 29,320 students
- Reach Cyber CSCombined · 5,721 students
- Central Dauphin SHSHigh · 1,966 students
- Central Dauphin East SHSHigh · 1,573 students
- Harrisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,343 students
- Dauphin County Technical SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
Nearby schools
- Sara Lindemuth Elementary School2.3 mi · 758
- Susquehanna Twp High School2.5 mi · 767
- Commonwealth Charter Academy CS2.6 mi · 29,320
- Camp Curtin Academy2.8 mi · 724
- Steele School3.1 mi · 362
- North Side Elementary School3.2 mi · 722
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School?
Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School enrolls approximately 792 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School serve?
Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School.
How diverse is Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School?
Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School reports a student body of 17% White, 18% Hispanic, 30% Black, 21% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School public or private?
Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Susquehanna Township SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.