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Columbia Borough SD, PA: schools, enrollment and spending
Columbia Borough SD runs 4 public schools with 1,326 students in grades K to 12. Its ratio of 13.4 students per teacher is about the same as the Pennsylvania figure of 13.5.
At a glance
- Schools
- 4
- Students
- 1,326
- Teachers (FTE)
- 99
- Students per teacher
- 13.4
- PA: 13.5 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 200 N. Fifth St., Columbia, PA 17512
- Phone
- (717)684-2283
- County
- Lancaster County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- K to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 4206360
- State district ID
- PA-113361503
- Total staff (FTE)
- 164
- School counselors (FTE)
- 6.0About 221 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 8.0
Students per teacher compared
This district13.4
Pennsylvania13.5
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (1,262), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $28.6 million
- Federal revenue
- $2.3 million
- State revenue
- $13.8 million
- Local revenue
- $12.5 million
- Total spending
- $23.8 million
- Spending per pupil
- $18,849
- Salaries
- $8.3 million34.9% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $13.8 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 7.9%
- State: 48.2%
- Local: 43.9%
Pennsylvania overall
- Federal: 8.2%
- State: 33.0%
- Local: 58.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$18,849
Pennsylvania$21,044
United States$16,826
Schools in Columbia Borough SD
By level: 1 high, 2 middle, 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Columbia High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 397 | 14.7 |
| Columbia Middle School Hill CampusCEP school | Middle | 7 to 8 | 202 | 13.5 |
| Columbia Middle School Taylor CampusCEP school | Middle | 5 to 6 | 202 | 11.9 |
| Park El SchCEP school | Elementary | K to 4 | 511 | 13.4 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Lancaster County
- Lancaster SD 9,959 students
- Hempfield SD 6,918 students
- Manheim Township SD 6,004 students
- Penn Manor SD 5,458 students
- Ephrata Area SD 3,918 students
- Conestoga Valley SD 3,848 students
- Warwick SD 3,705 students
- Elizabethtown Area SD 3,527 students
- Solanco SD 3,013 students
- Cocalico SD 2,869 students
- Manheim Central SD 2,780 students
- Lampeter-Strasburg SD 2,761 students
- Donegal SD 2,750 students
- Eastern Lancaster County SD 2,578 students
- Pequea Valley SD 1,307 students
More in Pennsylvania
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.