Public school / Primary
Schaeffer Sch
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 421458000624
- District
- Manheim Township SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Schaeffer Sch is a public primary school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, run by Manheim Township SD. It enrols 333 students — the 60909th largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.
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
333
Teachers
20.0
Students per teacher
16.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
44.7%
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.
Within Manheim Township 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.
- 1Manheim Twp Hs1,899 students
- 2Manheim Twp Ms955 students
- 3Landis Run Intermediate School901 students
- 4Reidenbaugh El Sch476 students
- 5Nitrauer Sch466 students
- 6Bucher Sch385 students
- 7Schaeffer Sch333 students
- 8Neff Sch279 students
- Enrollment−34.7%
- Teachers−42.9%
- Students per teacher+23.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−12.7%
Where this sits
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