Wickersham El Sch

Wickersham El Sch operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Lancaster SD. Current enrollment sits at 402 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Lancaster SD runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 9,901 students. Wickersham El Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Wickersham El Sch logs that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 14% Black, 11% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Lancaster County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lancaster County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wickersham El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.3%; this one delivers 49.0%.

In the surrounding community, Lancaster County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,959, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Wickersham El Sch is one of 114 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students).

McCaskey Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wickersham El Sch at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 31.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wickersham El Sch has declined 11%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 402 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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