Eyer MS

Eyer MS, a medium-sized middle-grades school in Macungie, Pennsylvania, run under East Penn SD, works with 804 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 35% above the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

East Penn SD runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,815 students. Eyer MS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eyer MS logs that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Eyer MS has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Eyer MS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 26% of students are eligible 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, Eyer MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.3%; this one delivers 62.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lehigh County) logs that median household income runs about $80,079, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Eyer MS is one of 83 public schools in Lehigh County (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students).

The closest other public school is Macungie El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Eyer MS comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 864 students in 2018 compared to 804 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 7% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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