Amanda E Stout El Sch

Amanda E Stout El Sch, a roomy primary school in Reading, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Reading SD, teaches 758 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 71% larger than typical.

Reading SD comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 16,423 students; Amanda E Stout El Sch is among them.

Demographically, Amanda E Stout El Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder is composed of 5% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Amanda E Stout El Sch records 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Amanda E Stout El Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.9%; actual is 18.8%, a gap of -17.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Berks County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Amanda E Stout El Sch is one of 95 public schools in Berks County (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students).

The closest other public school is Southern MS, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Amanda E Stout El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.4%.

Amanda E Stout El Sch operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Amanda E Stout El Sch has edged down 12%, going from 863 students in 2018 to 758 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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