Francis D Raub MS

Francis D Raub MS, a moderately sized middle-grades school in Allentown, Pennsylvania, overseen by Allentown City SD, works with 876 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Francis D Raub MS sits 47% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Allentown City SD (16,674 students total), Francis D Raub MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Francis D Raub MS shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Lehigh County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Lehigh County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Francis D Raub MS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.6%; Francis D Raub MS posts 10.7%, -24.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lehigh County shows median household earnings sit near $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lehigh County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), of which Francis D Raub MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Union Terrace El Sch, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Francis D Raub MS comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Francis D Raub MS has held roughly steady, going from 859 students in 2018 to 876 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 70% to 75%.

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