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Public school / Primary

South Mountain El Sch

Dillsburg, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
421776000459
District
Northern York County SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

South Mountain El Sch is a public primary school in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, run by Northern York County SD. It enrols 407 students — the 49834th 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

407students

49834th nationally, tied with 160

Teachers

29.0FTE

43988th nationally, tied with 2,243

Students per teacher

14.0students

37664th nationally, tied with 1,054

Free or reduced-price lunch

25.3%percent

73249th nationally, tied with 91

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 Northern York County 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. 1Northern Hs1,051 students
  2. 2Northern Ms751 students
  3. 3Dillsburg El Sch472 students
  4. 4South Mountain El Sch407 students
  5. 5Northern El Sch395 students
  6. 6Wellsville Campus251 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−20.2%
  • Teachers−17.1%
  • Students per teacher+3.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−50.6%
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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.