Gettysburg School District 53-1

The three schools in Gettysburg School District 53-1 serve kindergarten through grade 12: Gettysburg Elementary (K–5), Gettysburg Middle (6–8) and Gettysburg High (9–12); together they enroll 214 students. The clearest area-wide finding is that Elementary and Middle’s 2025–2026 all-grades results were well above state averages: their average was 66% in ELA versus 49% statewide, and 64% in math versus 44% statewide.

Middle stands out in math, with a 72% all-grades result compared with Elementary’s 56%, a 16-point gap; their ELA results were nearly identical at 66% each. Middle’s grade-level math results were especially strong: 8th grade was 40 points above the state, and its 6th- and 7th-grade results were 26 and 24 points above. Elementary shows a more uneven pattern: 4th-grade ELA was 27 points above the state, while 5th-grade science was 8 points below. High’s 11th-grade ACT results were mixed, with math 16 points and science 11 points above the state, but ELA 5 points below.

Results improved overall at the two schools with all-grades scores: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, their average rose 4 points in ELA and 7 in math, while their advantage over the state widened from 11 to 17 points in ELA and from 14 to 20 in math. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile rose for Middle from 86 to 97, while it fell for Elementary from 83 to 66 and for High from 85 to 73. Student-teacher ratios are 9.3 at Elementary, 16.2 at Middle and 10.7 at High. As context, free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL), 2024–2025, was 31% at Elementary, 24% at Middle and 15% at High. High’s test changed between the two years, so its scores should not be read as a year-over-year trend.