Hereford El Sch

Hereford El Sch operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Hereford, Pennsylvania, run under Upper Perkiomen SD. Current enrollment sits at 504 students spanning grades K through 3.

Hereford El Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Upper Perkiomen SD, a district that teaches 3,072 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Hereford El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Hereford El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 54.7%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Berks County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, 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 Hereford El Sch is one.

Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hereford El Sch at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Hereford El Sch's enrollment has contracted 42% since 2018, when it stood at 876 (now 504). The White share of enrollment declined from 88% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.