Public school / Primary
Winding Creek El Sch
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 420711007645
- District
- Cumberland Valley SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Winding Creek El Sch is a public primary school in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, run by Cumberland Valley SD. It enrols 999 students — the 8666th 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
999
Teachers
57.0
Students per teacher
17.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
29.4%
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 Cumberland Valley 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.
- 1Cumberland Valley Hs3,035 students
- 2Mountain View Ms1,378 students
- 3Eagle View Ms1,021 students
- 4Winding Creek El Sch999 students
- 5Green Ridge El Sch554 students
- 6Sporting Hill El Sch554 students
- 7Hampden El Sch530 students
- 8Shaull El Sch524 students
- Enrollment+95.9%
- Teachers+62.9%
- Students per teacher+29.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−42.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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