Regular local school district · Lancaster County
Lancaster SD, PA: schools, enrollment and spending
Lancaster SD runs 19 public schools with 9,959 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 11.2 students per teacher is 2.3 lower than the Pennsylvania figure of 13.5.
At a glance
- Schools
- 19
- Students
- 9,959
- Teachers (FTE)
- 886
- Students per teacher
- 11.2
- PA: 13.5 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 251 S Prince St, Lancaster, PA 17603
- Phone
- (717)291-6121
- County
- Lancaster County
- Locale
- City: Small
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 4213140
- State district ID
- PA-113364002
- Total staff (FTE)
- 1,683
- School counselors (FTE)
- 34.0About 293 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 70.0
Students per teacher compared
This district11.2
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 (10,384), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $240.9 million
- Federal revenue
- $29.8 million
- State revenue
- $119.9 million
- Local revenue
- $91.2 million
- Total spending
- $254.7 million
- Spending per pupil
- $24,526
- Salaries
- $94.0 million36.9% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $183.5 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 12.4%
- State: 49.8%
- Local: 37.8%
Pennsylvania overall
- Federal: 8.2%
- State: 33.0%
- Local: 58.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$24,526
Pennsylvania$21,044
United States$16,826
Schools in Lancaster SD
By level: 2 high, 4 middle, 13 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Burrowes El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 308 | 11.0 |
| Carter and MacRae El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 444 | 9.2 |
| Fulton El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 274 | 10.1 |
| Hamilton El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 339 | 10.9 |
| Jackson Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 524 | 10.3 |
| King El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 413 | 12.1 |
| Lafayette El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 437 | 10.9 |
| Lincoln Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 465 | 9.1 |
| Martin SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 8 | 623 | 11.8 |
| McCaskey CampusCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 2,600 | 14.9 |
| Phoenix AcademyCEP school | High | 6 to 12 | 305 | 12.2 |
| Price El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 331 | 8.9 |
| Reynolds Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 511 | 11.6 |
| Ross El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 281 | 13.4 |
| Smith-Wade-El El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 397 | 12.0 |
| Washington El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 467 | 9.5 |
| Wharton El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 327 | 12.1 |
| Wheatland Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 453 | 9.6 |
| Wickersham El SchCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 402 | 11.8 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Lancaster County
- 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
- Columbia Borough SD 1,326 students
- Pequea Valley SD 1,307 students
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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.