L B Morris El Sch

L B Morris El Sch, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, overseen by Jim Thorpe Area SD, educates 615 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 39% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Jim Thorpe Area SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,646 students. L B Morris El Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, L B Morris El Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, L B Morris El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.3%; this one delivers 40.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Carbon County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,554, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Carbon County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,111 students), L B Morris El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Carbon Career & Technical Institute, roughly 0.3 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts L B Morris El Sch at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.2%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. L B Morris El Sch's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 752 (now 615). Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 10% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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