Jackson Early Childhood Center

Jackson Early Childhood Center serves students in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a low-enrollment elementary school. It reports enrollment of 212 students in pre-K through kindergarten. The school is 52% below the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.

Allentown City SD enrolls 16,674 students in 23 schools, including Jackson Early Childhood Center.

About 69% of the student body at Jackson Early Childhood Center is Hispanic. Other groups make up 15% Black, 12% multiracial, and 3% White. County-wide, 28% of Lehigh County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 48%.

A staff of 16.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 12.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 13.1:1.

In the wider Lehigh County area, the median household earns about $80,079 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Across Lehigh County, 83 public schools serve about 56,984 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Luis A. Ramos Elementary School, is less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 3%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.8:1 in 2020-21, and 12.8:1 in 2024-25.

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