George Wolf El Sch

George Wolf El Sch, a mid-tier primary school in Bath, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Northampton Area SD, serves 428 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 6 schools in Northampton Area SD (5,113 students total), George Wolf El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, George Wolf El Sch logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, George Wolf El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 54.2%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Northampton County shows median household income runs about $89,184, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Northampton County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students), of which George Wolf El Sch is one.

Lower Nazareth El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around George Wolf El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), George Wolf El Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. George Wolf El Sch's enrollment has edged down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 519 (now 428). Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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