Enrollment
357
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHLEHEM AREA SD·NCES 420357003456
Farmersville Elementary School
7036 Wm Penn Highway, Easton, PA 18045 · (610) 868-0471 · Northampton County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL357 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.6:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
122 students
DISTRICT 64% · 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 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
59.4%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
59.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +11.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.4% | 59.4% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 48.1% |
% 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
59.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Farmersville Elementary School
Farmersville Elementary School's state test result (59.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmersville Elementary School this school | 357 | 34.2% | 59.4% |
| Eagleville Elementary School Eagleville | 401 | 35.4% | 64.8% |
| Bucher School Lancaster | 403 | 39.7% | 67.7% |
| York Avenue Elementary School Lansdale | 291 | 34.4% | 64.9% |
| Easterly Parkway Elementary School State College | 314 | 39.2% | 65.6% |
| Asa Packer Elementary School Bethlehem | 314 | 33.8% | 58.0% |
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 Farmersville Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #612 of 1,396 | #15 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #547 of 1,511 ▲ 259 | #14 of 34 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #452 of 1,511 ▲ 224 | #11 of 34 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 357 | #1,031 of 1,638 | #21 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #628 of 1,528 | #17 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.6% | #304 of 1,531 | #11 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.2% | #1,268 of 1,600 | #30 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #481 of 1,045 | #13 of 25 |
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
357
-37 (-9%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 319
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 357 | 28.3 | 12.6:1 | 34% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 351 | 27.5 | 12.8:1 | 35% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 361 | 26.3 | 13.7:1 | 32% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 394 | 27 | 14.6:1 | 29% (113) |
| 2017-18 | 415 | 28.3 | 14.7:1 | 26% (108) |
| 2015-16 | 433 | 28 | 15.5:1 | 26% (112) |
| 2010-11 | 542 | 30 | 18.1:1 | 10% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 574 | 36 | 15.9:1 | 9% (49) |
| 1990-91 | 319 | 15 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Farmersville Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (415 to 357); teachers unchanged (28.3 to 28.3).
About Farmersville Elementary School
Farmersville Elementary School sits in Easton, Pennsylvania, and is classified as an elementary school. It enrolled 357 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Bethlehem Area SD runs 22 schools with a combined 12,717 students. Farmersville Elementary School is one of them.
Farmersville Elementary School's enrollment is 58% White. Enrollment also includes 17% Hispanic, 13% Black, and 10% Asian. Among people living in Northampton County, the White share is about 74%. Farmersville Elementary School has a diversity index of 61%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 28.3 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 12.6:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 13.1:1, a similar figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 34%. For comparison, public schools in Northampton County average 61%.
allk12 grades Farmersville Elementary School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, Farmersville Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 59.4%; the prediction is 63.0%.
Within Northampton County, median household income is about $89,184, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 60 public schools in Northampton County, with a combined enrollment of about 38,316.
The closest public school to Farmersville Elementary School is Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School, about 1.8 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Farmersville Elementary School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Farmersville Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 394 in 2020-21 and 357 in 2024-25, a 9% decrease. Federal data show the ratio falling from 14.6:1 to 12.6:1.
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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
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Other Farmersville Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Farmersville Elementary. Farmersville Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Farmersville Elementary SchoolMount Vernon, IN · 276 students
- Farmersville Elementary SchoolFarmersville, IL · 95 students
Nearby schools
- Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School1.8 mi · 18
- Miller Heights Elementary School1.9 mi · 328
- Palmer Elementary School2.1 mi · 531
- Freedom High School2.1 mi · 1,792
- East Hills Middle School2.4 mi · 966
- Governor Wolf Elementary School2.5 mi · 432
Frequently asked questions
About Farmersville Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Farmersville Elementary School?
Farmersville Elementary School enrolls approximately 357 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Farmersville Elementary School serve?
Farmersville Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Farmersville Elementary School?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at Farmersville Elementary School.
How diverse is Farmersville Elementary School?
Farmersville Elementary School reports a student body of 58% White, 17% Hispanic, 13% Black, 10% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Farmersville Elementary School in?
Farmersville Elementary School is part of Bethlehem Area SD.
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