Alburtis El Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Alburtis El Sch
Alburtis El Sch is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Alburtis, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within East Penn SD, with 360 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.
Within East Penn SD, which oversees 10 schools and 7,815 students, Alburtis El Sch is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Alburtis El Sch reports that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder is composed of 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian. Compared to Lehigh County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lehigh County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Alburtis El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.9%; this one delivers 71.4%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Lehigh County) logs that median household income runs about $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Alburtis El Sch is one of 83 public schools in Lehigh County (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students).
Nearest neighbor: Willow Lane El Sch, around 2.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alburtis El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alburtis El Sch at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 70.5%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alburtis El Sch has increased 6%, going from 340 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.
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