Glenside El Sch

Glenside El Sch operates as a compact K-5 school in Reading, Pennsylvania, run under Reading SD. Current enrollment sits at 261 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 41% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Glenside El Sch is one of 19 schools operated by Reading SD, a district that serves 16,423 students overall.

Demographically, Glenside El Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Other groups include 7% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Glenside El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 101% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glenside El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Berks County put median household income runs about $79,777, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Glenside El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Northwest El Sch, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glenside El Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 29.5%.

Glenside El Sch operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Glenside El Sch's enrollment has declined 33% since 2018, when it stood at 389 (now 261). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 80% to 88%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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