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Public school / Middle

Central Dauphin Ms

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
420540000838
District
Central Dauphin SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Central Dauphin Ms is a public middle school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, run by Central Dauphin SD. It enrols 848 students — the 12401st largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

848students

12401st nationally, tied with 41

Teachers

53.0FTE

13103rd nationally, tied with 568

Students per teacher

16.0students

56681st nationally, tied with 887

Free or reduced-price lunch

33.3%percent

66619th nationally, tied with 192

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Central Dauphin SD

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Central Dauphin Shs1,975 students
  2. 2Central Dauphin East Shs1,590 students
  3. 3Central Dauphin Ms848 students
  4. 4Linglestown Ms808 students
  5. 5Central Dauphin East Ms779 students
  6. 6North Side El Sch707 students
  7. 7Paxtonia El Sch689 students
  8. 8South Side El Sch654 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Pennsylvania median across 2,956 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+66.3%
  • Teachers+51.4%
  • Students per teacher+18.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−35.0%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.