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Millersburg, Pennsylvania - 3 schools
An equity score of 57/100 ranks Millersburg Area Sd #242 of 648 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,324 per pupil, Millersburg Area Sd ranks #327 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Millersburg Area Sd operates 3 public schools serving 703 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 middle, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Dauphin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,324 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 49.9% local, 44.5% state, and 5.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 57/100, ranked #242 of 648 in Pennsylvania against a state average of 49, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 383:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.5% White, 3.6% Hispanic or Latino, 2.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lenkerville El Sch, enrolling 313 students (43% of the district's total enrollment).
Lenkerville El Sch accounts for 42.8% of all Millersburg Area Sd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Millersburg Area Sd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Millersburg Area Sd student-counselor ratio is 383:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Millersburg Area Sd chronic absenteeism rate is 24.5% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Millersburg Area Sd is typically wider than the Millersburg Area Sd-aggregate figure suggests.
Millersburg Area Sd has 3 schools, including 1 elementary, 1 middle, 1 high. Total enrollment is 703 students.
How much does Millersburg Area Sd spend per student?
Millersburg Area Sd spends $17,324 per student. The district has an equity score of 57/100, ranking #242 in Pennsylvania.
What is the demographic composition of Millersburg Area Sd?
Millersburg Area Sd students are 89.5% White, 3.6% Hispanic or Latino, 2.6% African American, 1.9% Asian, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.
What is the equity score for Millersburg Area Sd?
Millersburg Area Sd has an equity score of 57/100, ranking #242 out of 648 districts in Pennsylvania.