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Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARKLAND SD·NCES 421851007356
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School
1051 Weilers Rd, Breinigsville, PA 18031 · (610) 351-5880 · Lehigh County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
13.1:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
119 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 45 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
74.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.5pp since 2023
Math
80.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.3pp since 2023
What 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.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.9% | 80.8% |
| 2023-24 | 82.4% | 80.5% |
% 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
80.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.1pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School's state test result (80.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School this school | 433 | 27.5% | 80.0% |
| Kathryn D. Markley Elementary School Malvern | 426 | 37.3% | 70.6% |
| Woodland Elementary School Norristown | 427 | 22.2% | 73.6% |
| Silver Spring Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 528 | 30.9% | 67.1% |
| Sugartown Elementary School Malvern | 449 | 30.3% | 61.4% |
| General Wayne Elementary School Malvern | 542 | 17.3% | 75.6% |
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 Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #111 of 1,396 | #4 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.8% | #99 of 1,511 ▼ 21 | #5 of 45 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.9% | #138 of 1,511 ▼ 48 | #3 of 45 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #746 of 1,638 | #33 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #786 of 1,528 | #17 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.2% | #45 of 1,531 | #1 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.5% | #1,360 of 1,600 | #41 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.9% | #95 of 1,045 | #1 of 23 |
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
433
-40 (-8%) vs 2020
-29% since 2010-11, when it was 609
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 433 | 33.1 | 13.1:1 | 27% (119) |
| 2023-24 | 453 | 34.1 | 13.3:1 | 26% (119) |
| 2022-23 | 447 | 36.5 | 12.3:1 | 25% (113) |
| 2020-21 | 473 | 36 | 13.1:1 | 16% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 636 | 37.8 | 16.8:1 | 17% (105) |
| 2015-16 | 641 | 37 | 17.3:1 | 15% (96) |
| 2010-11 | 609 | 33 | 18.4:1 | 17% (104) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (636 to 433); teachers down 13% (37.8 to 33.1).
About Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School is one of the public schools in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school teaches kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 433 students.
Parkland SD runs 12 schools with a combined 9,975 students. Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School is one of them.
At Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School, White students make up the biggest share, 33%. The remaining students are 31% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 4% multiracial. Among people living in Lehigh County, the White share is about 62%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 73%.
There are 33.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 13.1:1. It is about the same as the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Of all students at Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School, 27% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in Lehigh County is 43 points.
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 80.0%, compared with a predicted 65.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Lehigh County show the median household earns about $80,079 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School, Lehigh County has 83 public schools.
Veterans Memorial Elementary School is the nearest public school to Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School, about 1.2 miles away. Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 67.4%, lower than Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School's 80.0%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 8% decline, from 473 to 433.
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Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Parkland SD
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 3,279 students
- Springhouse Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
- Orefield Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,034 students
- Parkway Manor SchoolElementary · 569 students
- Kernsville SchoolElementary · 512 students
- Kratzer SchoolElementary · 510 students
Other schools in Breinigsville
- Fogelsville SchoolElementary · 480 students
- Veterans Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
Nearby schools
- Veterans Memorial Elementary School1.2 mi · 451
- Fogelsville School1.2 mi · 480
- Lower Macungie Middle School2.3 mi · 1,041
- Willow Lane Elementary School2.9 mi · 593
- Alburtis Elementary School3.0 mi · 360
- Wescosville Elementary School3.3 mi · 465
Frequently asked questions
About Fred J. Jaindl Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School?
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School enrolls approximately 433 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School serve?
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School.
How diverse is Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School?
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School reports a student body of 33% White, 22% Hispanic, 9% Black, 31% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School?
Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School is overseen by Parkland SD in Lehigh County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.