Kernsville Sch

Kernsville Sch is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Orefield, Pennsylvania, part of Parkland SD, educateing 512 students in grades K through 5.

Parkland SD runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 9,975 students. Kernsville Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Kernsville Sch logs that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 14% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Lehigh County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Kernsville Sch shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lehigh County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kernsville Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.4%.

Across the wider county, Lehigh County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,079, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lehigh County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), Kernsville Sch is one campus in the mix.

Orefield MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kernsville Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.5%.

Kernsville Sch operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kernsville Sch's enrollment has climbed 32% since 2018, when it stood at 388 (now 512). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 70% to 63%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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