Upper Dauphin Area HS

Upper Dauphin Area HS operates as a tight-knit secondary school in Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, part of Upper Dauphin Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 331 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 55% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Upper Dauphin Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,006 students; Upper Dauphin Area HS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Upper Dauphin Area HS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Upper Dauphin Area HS has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dauphin County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Upper Dauphin Area HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dauphin County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $76,242 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Upper Dauphin Area HS is one of 75 public schools in Dauphin County (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students).

Nearest neighbor: Upper Dauphin Area El Sch, around 3.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Upper Dauphin Area HS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Upper Dauphin Area HS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Upper Dauphin Area HS has fell 14%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 331 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 94% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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