The top reported proficiency rate is 32% in English language arts. The lowest is 14% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Lyndwood El Sch
Lyndwood Elementary serves pre-kindergarten and kindergarten in Hanover Township, a dispersed blue-collar community of roughly a dozen small villages in the industrial heart of Luzerne County. The school sits on the edge of major change. The district has just consolidated its four neighborhood elementary schools into a single new Pre-K through grade 6 facility housed in a renovated former office building in Hanover Industrial Estates, with students expected to transition in the 2026–27 school year. Lyndwood and the other three aging neighborhood buildings will close or be repurposed. For families with young children, this means the end of the walking-distance neighborhood school model in favor of a centralized campus.
The school's current enrollment is small, serving a substantial share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The student body is racially and ethnically mixed, with White students slightly more than one-third, Hispanic students about one-third, and Black students a smaller proportion. The data available for early elementary grades does not include state testing results because Pennsylvania does not assess these ages; readiness and foundational skills work happen here without the formal proficiency measures that attach to grades 3 and above.
The township itself is auto-dependent and suburban rather than walkable. Hanover Township's character is quiet residential neighborhoods, planned communities, a handful of farms, and a spread-out business district anchored by industrial estates along two major expressways. The region has seen major logistics investment in recent years, with large warehouse and e-commerce operations locating to remediated industrial land. Housing values in the local zip code are modest relative to Pennsylvania and national benchmarks, and rent is a smaller share of local household income than mortgage payments, making rental more affordable than purchase for many families. The community's economic base has shifted from coal and railroads to warehousing, logistics, and light manufacturing, with employers like CVS/Caremark, Navient, and newer tenants like Chewy and Adidas drawing workers into the Hanover Industrial Estates.
The Hanover Area School District itself is experiencing a generational infrastructure shift. Beyond the elementary school consolidation, the district plans to convert Memorial Elementary into a STEM academy for middle and high school students and repurpose Hanover Green as a registration and services hub with healthcare and childcare components. The district has also been identified among the underfunded districts in Pennsylvania and is set to receive significantly increased state aid over the next several years, which the superintendent has said will generate a substantial surplus and reduce reliance on local property taxes, which are among the highest in the county.
For families considering Lyndwood, the immediate question is timing. The school will operate through the 2025–26 year and then close as students move to the new consolidated facility. Any child entering pre-K or kindergarten this year or next will spend one or two years at Lyndwood before transitioning to the new building. Parents may want to discuss with the school and district how that transition will be managed and what the new facility will look like when it opens.
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