Enrollment
205
Elementary
DISTRICT 246 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILSON AREA SD·NCES 422655003516
Avona Elementary School
2317 Front Street, Easton, PA 18042 · (484) 373-6250 · Northampton County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL205 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
131 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 44 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 30 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 25% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (44).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Wilson Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
52.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -11.7pp since 2023
Math
52.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -18.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.9% | 52.9% |
| 2023-24 | 64.6% | 71.8% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Avona Elementary School
Avona Elementary School's state test result (64.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avona Elementary School this school | 205 | 63.9% | 64.3% |
| James Buchanan Elementary School Bethlehem | 253 | 67.2% | 38.9% |
| Vida CS Gettysburg | 251 | 54.6% | 42.8% |
| Barkley Elementary School Phoenixville | 281 | 58.7% | 57.0% |
| William Penn Elementary School Bethlehem | 242 | 78.9% | 34.8% |
| Calypso Elementary School Bethlehem | 222 | 55.0% | 59.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Avona Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #463 of 1,396 | #10 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #724 of 1,511 ▼ 508 | #20 of 34 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #649 of 1,511 ▼ 170 | #15 of 34 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 205 | #1,522 of 1,638 | #35 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #1,285 of 1,528 | #34 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.9% | #323 of 1,531 | #15 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.9% | #777 of 1,600 | #16 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.0% | #410 of 450 | #7 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
205
-15 (-7%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 139
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 205 | 13.5 | 15.1:1 | 64% (131) |
| 2023-24 | 201 | 14.5 | 13.8:1 | 65% (131) |
| 2022-23 | 204 | 13.8 | 14.8:1 | 62% (126) |
| 2020-21 | 220 | 14 | 15.7:1 | 59% (129) |
| 2017-18 | 203 | 14 | 14.5:1 | 56% (114) |
| 2015-16 | 185 | 14 | 13.2:1 | 55% (102) |
| 2010-11 | 268 | 18 | 14.9:1 | 46% (123) |
| 2000-01 | 343 | 13 | 26.4:1 | 21% (73) |
| 1990-91 | 139 | 6 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Avona Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (203 to 205); teachers down 3% (14 to 13.5).
About Avona Elementary School
Federal records list Avona Elementary School as an elementary school in Easton, Pennsylvania. Its 205 students are spread across kindergarten through 4. The school's enrollment is 54% smaller than the 443 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Wilson Area SD enrolls 2,091 students in 5 schools, including Avona Elementary School.
Hispanic students are the majority at Avona Elementary School, with 56% of enrollment. Other groups make up 29% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Northampton County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 60%, meaning two students picked at random have a 60% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Avona Elementary School's 13.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 15.1:1. That is higher than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 64%. For comparison, public schools in Northampton County average 61%.
Avona Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 77% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 50.2% for a school in Pennsylvania with Avona Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Avona Elementary School posts 64.3%.
Among Northampton County residents, the median household income is $89,184, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Avona Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, Wilson Area Intermediate School, is about 0.2 miles from Avona Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Avona Elementary School ranks 1st in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put Avona Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
2024-25 enrollment was 205, a 7% decrease from 220 in 2020-21.
Community posts for Avona Elementary School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Northampton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
318,580
Census ACS
Median income
$89,184
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
38,316 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wilson Area SD
- Wilson Area High SchoolHigh · 709 students
- Wilson Area Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Wilson Borough Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Williams Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 249 students
Other schools in Easton
- Easton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Easton Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,879 students
- Wilson Area High SchoolHigh · 709 students
- Wilson Area Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Paxinosa Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- Shawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
Nearby schools
- Wilson Area Intermediate School0.2 mi · 643
- Wilson Area High School0.8 mi · 709
- Wilson Borough Elementary School0.8 mi · 285
- Easton Area High School0.9 mi · 2,778
- Cheston Elementary School1.2 mi · 559
- Paxinosa Elementary School1.4 mi · 572
Frequently asked questions
About Avona Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Avona Elementary School?
Avona Elementary School enrolls approximately 205 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Avona Elementary School serve?
Avona Elementary School serves grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Avona Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Avona Elementary School is approximately 15.1:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Avona Elementary School?
Student demographics at Avona Elementary School are roughly 29% White, 56% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Avona Elementary School in?
Avona Elementary School is part of Wilson Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.