Arts Academy Elementary CS

Set in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Arts Academy Elementary CS is a medium-sized primary school, operated by Arts Academy Elementary CS. It teaches 425 students across grades K through 5.

Operationally, Arts Academy Elementary CS answers to Arts Academy Elementary CS, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Arts Academy Elementary CS records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Other groups include 19% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Arts Academy Elementary CS has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Arts Academy Elementary CS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 105% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lehigh County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Arts Academy Elementary CS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.7%; this one delivers 21.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lehigh County indicate median household income runs about $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lehigh County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), of which Arts Academy Elementary CS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Building 21 Allentown, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Arts Academy Elementary CS comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. Arts Academy Elementary CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arts Academy Elementary CS has ticked up 4%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 60% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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