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Fred J. Jaindl El Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fred J. Jaindl El Sch
Set in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, Fred J. Jaindl El Sch is a mid-tier K-5 school, operated by Parkland SD. It works with 433 students across grades K through 5.
Parkland SD runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 9,975 students. Fred J. Jaindl El Sch is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Fred J. Jaindl El Sch lists that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 31% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.
Looking at school resources, Fred J. Jaindl El Sch lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 27% of students at Fred J. Jaindl El Sch qualify 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 somewhat below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fred J. Jaindl El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.0%.
Across the wider county, census data for Lehigh County shows median household income runs about $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 Fred J. Jaindl El Sch is one.
Veterans Memorial El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fred J. Jaindl El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fred J. Jaindl El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.4%.
Fred J. Jaindl El Sch operates from an outer-ring location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fred J. Jaindl El Sch has declined 32%, going from 636 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 52% to 33%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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