Regular local school district · Lancaster County
Elizabethtown Area SD, PA: schools, enrollment and spending
Elizabethtown Area SD runs 5 public schools with 3,527 students in grades K to 12. Its ratio of 14.9 students per teacher is 1.4 higher than the Pennsylvania figure of 13.5.
At a glance
- Schools
- 5
- Students
- 3,527
- Teachers (FTE)
- 237
- Students per teacher
- 14.9
- PA: 13.5 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 600 E High St, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
- Phone
- (717)367-1521
- County
- Lancaster County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- K to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 4209120
- State district ID
- PA-113362403
- Total staff (FTE)
- 367
- School counselors (FTE)
- 13.0About 271 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 14.0
Students per teacher compared
This district14.9
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 (3,691), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $70.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $3.3 million
- State revenue
- $21.4 million
- Local revenue
- $45.9 million
- Total spending
- $70.4 million
- Spending per pupil
- $19,074
- Salaries
- $28.5 million40.4% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $53.6 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 4.7%
- State: 30.3%
- Local: 65.0%
Pennsylvania overall
- Federal: 8.2%
- State: 33.0%
- Local: 58.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$19,074
Pennsylvania$21,044
United States$16,826
Schools in Elizabethtown Area SD
By level: 1 high, 1 middle, 3 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Bainbridge El Sch | Elementary | K to 2 | 219 | 15.6 |
| Bear Creek School | Elementary | 3 to 5 | 750 | 14.2 |
| East High Street El Sch | Elementary | K to 2 | 466 | 14.6 |
| Elizabethtown Area Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 827 | 13.6 |
| Elizabethtown Area SHS | High | 9 to 12 | 1,263 | 17.1 |
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
- 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
- Columbia Borough SD 1,326 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.