NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Camp Hill, PA

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8 public K-12 schools in Camp Hill from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
3,780
Students
54.5/100
Avg Resource Index
12.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Camp Hill has more public-school enrollment than 41% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cedar Cliff Hs enrolls 35.3% of Camp Hill's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Camp Hill's 8 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 2 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 20-point gap between Eisenhower El Sch and Cedar Cliff Hs shows the range hidden by Camp Hill's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 59%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
95th percentile
Teacher staffing
86th percentile

Cedar Cliff Hs accounts for 35.3% of all Camp Hill public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Camp Hill-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Camp Hill school enrollment varies 5.2× across entities

Camp Hill school enrollment ranges from 254 students (lowest) to 1,333 students (highest), a spread of 1,079 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Camp Hill student-teacher ratio is 12.3:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Eisenhower El Sch 63
2. Allen Ms 62
3. Hoover El Sch 58
4. Camp Hill Ms 57
5. Camp Hill Shs 56
6. West Creek Hills El Sch 53
7. Highland El Sch 44
8. Cedar Cliff Hs 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Camp Hill

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 West Creek Hills El Sch 62.0/100
  2. 2 Highland El Sch 60.8/100
  3. 3 Cedar Cliff Hs 53.8/100
  4. 4 Allen Ms 51.6/100
  5. 5 Hoover El Sch 48.1/100

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Which Camp Hill school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Eisenhower El Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Camp Hill schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Camp Hill, PA? ▼

Camp Hill has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,780 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.