Washington El Sch

Washington El Sch operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, overseen by Lancaster SD. Current enrollment sits at 467 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 19 schools in Lancaster SD (9,901 students total), Washington El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Washington El Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school shows 9% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 102% of students at Washington El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lancaster County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Washington El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 28.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Lancaster County) logs that median household earnings sit near $86,959, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Lancaster County runs 114 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students), of which Washington El Sch is one.

Jackson MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Washington El Sch. On composite proficiency, Washington El Sch comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Washington El Sch's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 467). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 81% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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