NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Elizabethtown, PA

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

3,545

Students

56.6/100

Avg Resource Index

15.1:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Elizabethtown has more public-school enrollment than 37% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Elizabethtown Area Shs enrolls 35.6% of Elizabethtown'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

3 of Elizabethtown'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Elizabethtown's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 97th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 53rd percentile. The 44-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment: Top 63%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 97th percentile
Teacher staffing: 53rd percentile

Elizabethtown Area Shs accounts for 35.6% of all Elizabethtown public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Elizabethtown-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Elizabethtown school enrollment varies 5.3× across entities

Elizabethtown school enrollment ranges from 239 students (lowest) to 1,263 students (highest), a spread of 1,024 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Elizabethtown student-teacher ratio is 15.1:1 — 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 Elizabethtown is typically wider than the Elizabethtown-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Bear Creek School	62	750	elementary	Elizabethtown Area Sd
2.	Conewago El Sch	60	239	elementary	Lower Dauphin Sd
3.	Elizabethtown Area Ms	57	827	middle	Elizabethtown Area Sd
4.	East High Street El Sch	53	466	elementary	Elizabethtown Area Sd
5.	Elizabethtown Area Shs	51	1,263	high	Elizabethtown Area Sd

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Elizabethtown

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.

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Which Elizabethtown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bear Creek School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Elizabethtown schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Elizabethtown, PA? ▼

Elizabethtown has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,545 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.1:1.

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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.