Forks El Sch

Located at 1709 Richmond Rd, in Easton, Pennsylvania, Forks El Sch is a compact K-5 school that instructs 336 students (grades K through 5), operated by Easton Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Forks El Sch sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Easton Area SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 7,928 students. Forks El Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Forks El Sch shows that White students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder reads as 19% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, On paper, Forks El Sch has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 101% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Northampton County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Forks El Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 34.2%; actual is 55.8%, +21.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Northampton County put median household income runs about $89,184, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Forks El Sch is one of 60 public schools in Northampton County (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students).

The closest other public school is Shawnee El Sch, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Forks El Sch comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Forks El Sch's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 336). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 13% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Forks El Sch typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.