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Public school / Primary

North Side El Sch

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
420540001781
District
Central Dauphin SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

North Side El Sch is a public primary school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, run by Central Dauphin SD. It enrols 707 students — the 18915th 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

707students

18915th nationally, tied with 70

Teachers

43.0FTE

21160th nationally, tied with 1,123

Students per teacher

16.4students

60006th nationally, tied with 751

Free or reduced-price lunch

99.4%percent

4561st nationally, tied with 255

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+38.6%
  • Teachers+22.9%
  • Students per teacher+21.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+94.1%
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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.