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Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch
Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch is one of the expansive elementary campuss in Allentown, Pennsylvania, overseen by Allentown City SD, with 807 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 82% above the state mean of about 443.
Across the 23 schools in Allentown City SD (16,674 students total), Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch reports that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 9% multiracial, 8% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lehigh County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 18.0%, a residual of -16.8 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Lehigh County) logs that median household earnings sit near $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch is one of 83 public schools in Lehigh County (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students).
Nearest neighbor: Luis A. Ramos El Sch, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.5%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
On allk12, members of the Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays El Sch community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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