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Public school / Primary

Highland El Sch

Ephrata, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
420927002570
District
Ephrata Area SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Highland El Sch is a public primary school in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, run by Ephrata Area SD. It enrols 468 students — the 41396th 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

468students

41396th nationally, tied with 130

Teachers

31.0FTE

39703rd nationally, tied with 2,128

Students per teacher

15.1students

48544th nationally, tied with 918

Free or reduced-price lunch

49.6%percent

50961st nationally, tied with 80

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 Ephrata Area 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. 1Ephrata Shs1,317 students
  2. 2Ephrata Ms631 students
  3. 3Ephrata Intermediate Sch559 students
  4. 4Highland El Sch468 students
  5. 5Clay El Sch377 students
  6. 6Fulton El Sch316 students
  7. 7Akron El Sch276 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−8.2%
  • Teachers−11.4%
  • Students per teacher+11.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−3.1%
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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.