NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Dillsburg, PA

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

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5
Schools
2,965
Students
50.4/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Dillsburg has more public-school enrollment than 28% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dillsburg's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Dillsburg's 5 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 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Dillsburg's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 88th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 4-point gap between South Mountain El Sch and Dillsburg El Sch measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 72%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
88th percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

Northern Hs accounts for 33.1% of all Dillsburg public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Dillsburg-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

Dillsburg school enrollment varies 2.5× across entities

Dillsburg school enrollment ranges from 389 students (lowest) to 982 students (highest), a spread of 593 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

Dillsburg operates one school district — a single-district system

Dillsburg's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Dillsburg student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Dillsburg is typically wider than the Dillsburg-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. South Mountain El Sch 52
2. Northern Hs 51
3. Northern Ms 51
4. Northern El Sch 50
5. Dillsburg El Sch 48

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Dillsburg

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 Northern El Sch 34.7/100
  2. 2 Dillsburg El Sch 22.1/100
  3. 3 Northern Hs 20.8/100
  4. 4 Northern Ms 18.7/100
  5. 5 South Mountain El Sch 18.7/100

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Which Dillsburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

South Mountain El Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Dillsburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Dillsburg, PA? ▼

Dillsburg has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,965 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.