NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Ephrata, PA

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

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7
Schools
3,653
Students
55.4/100
Avg Resource Index
11.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ephrata has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ephrata Shs enrolls 36.9% of Ephrata'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 Ephrata's 7 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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Ephrata lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 25 to 1,347 students, a 54-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 61%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
96th percentile
Teacher staffing
92nd percentile

Ephrata Shs accounts for 36.9% of all Ephrata public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ephrata-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

Ephrata school enrollment varies 54× across entities

Ephrata school enrollment ranges from 25 students (lowest) to 1,347 students (highest), a spread of 1,322 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Ephrata student-teacher ratio is 11.4:1 — 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. Lancaster County Ctc-Brownstown Campus 74
2. Ephrata Intermediate Sch 56
3. Fulton El Sch 56
4. Clay El Sch 55
5. Ephrata Ms 50
6. Highland El Sch 49
7. Ephrata Shs 48

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ephrata

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 Fulton El Sch 50.3/100
  2. 2 Lancaster County Ctc-Brownstown Campus 50.2/100
  3. 3 Ephrata Intermediate Sch 42.1/100
  4. 4 Clay El Sch 41.4/100
  5. 5 Ephrata Ms 39.7/100

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Which Ephrata school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lancaster County Ctc-Brownstown Campus has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ephrata schools in this federal-data comparison at 74/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ephrata, PA? ▼

Ephrata has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,653 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.4:1.

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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.