Jacksonwald El Sch

Jacksonwald El Sch is one of the small K-5 schools in Reading, Pennsylvania, overseen by Exeter Township SD, with 370 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

Exeter Township SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,837 students. Jacksonwald El Sch is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Jacksonwald El Sch shows that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Jacksonwald El Sch logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Berks County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jacksonwald El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Berks County shows median household income runs about $79,777, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Berks County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), Jacksonwald El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Owatin Creek El Sch, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jacksonwald El Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 375 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 71% to 53%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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