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Enrollment
615
Elementary
DISTRICT 578 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JIM THORPE AREA SD·NCES 421254006965
L B Morris Elementary School
150 W 10th St, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 · (570) 325-2703 · Carbon County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL615 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
378 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 69 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 73 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 18% smaller than its 8th grade class (73).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
L B Morris Elementary School→Jim Thorpe Area High School
Based on grade levels within Jim Thorpe Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
45.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.5pp since 2023
Math
28.5%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.3% | 28.5% |
| 2023-24 | 47.8% | 28.7% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like L B Morris Elementary School
L B Morris Elementary School's state test result (40.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| L B Morris Elementary School this school | 615 | 61.5% | 40.0% |
| Tilden El Center Hamburg | 562 | 59.4% | 42.6% |
| James F Baugher Elementary School Milton | 560 | 55.5% | 53.1% |
| Greenville Elementary School Greenville | 626 | 62.1% | 55.1% |
| EverGreen Elementary School Lake Ariel | 522 | 65.1% | 64.6% |
| Tracy Elementary School Erie | 515 | 58.1% | 63.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where L B Morris Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Carbon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,064 of 1,396 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #1,181 of 1,511 ▼ 35 | #6 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #875 of 1,511 ▲ 91 | #3 of 7 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 615 | #237 of 1,638 | #2 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #858 of 1,528 | #4 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.3% | #1,035 of 1,531 | #5 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.5% | #807 of 1,600 | #4 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.2% | #343 of 1,045 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
615
-3 (0%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 663
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 615 | 46.2 | 13.3:1 | 61% (378) |
| 2023-24 | 615 | 49 | 12.6:1 | 61% (378) |
| 2022-23 | 624 | 50.5 | 12.4:1 | 31% (196) |
| 2020-21 | 618 | 53 | 11.7:1 | 44% (273) |
| 2017-18 | 752 | 51.7 | 14.5:1 | 42% (318) |
| 2015-16 | 723 | 50 | 14.5:1 | 49% (353) |
| 2010-11 | 825 | 54 | 15.3:1 | 43% (352) |
| 2000-01 | 855 | 50 | 17.1:1 | 34% (292) |
| 1990-91 | 663 | 35 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for L B Morris Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (752 to 615); teachers down 11% (51.7 to 46.2).
About L B Morris Elementary School
L B Morris Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The school offers pre-K through 8 and enrolls 615 students. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 443, and this school is 39% larger than that mark.
The 3 schools in Jim Thorpe Area SD enroll 1,646 students altogether, L B Morris Elementary School among them.
By race and ethnicity, L B Morris Elementary School is 85% White. Next come 10% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 27, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at L B Morris Elementary School totals 46.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 13.1:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at L B Morris Elementary School is about 61%.
L B Morris Elementary School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 19% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
In Pennsylvania, L B Morris Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 40.0% actual against a predicted 51.3%.
Looking at the county, Carbon County, median household income comes to about $67,554, roughly 19% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting L B Morris Elementary School, Carbon County has 18 public schools.
The closest school to L B Morris Elementary School is Carbon Career & Technical Institute, located about 0.3 miles away. In all, 6 other public schools sit within five miles of L B Morris Elementary School. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, L B Morris Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Fringe, or in a town close to an urbanized area.
Enrollment went from 618 in 2020-21 to 615 in 2024-25, a change of 3 students. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.7:1 to 13.3:1.
The allk12 page for L B Morris Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Carbon County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,382
Census ACS
Median income
$67,554
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
8,111 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jim Thorpe Area SD
- Penn-Kidder CampusElementary · 541 students
- Jim Thorpe Area High SchoolHigh · 490 students
Other schools in Jim Thorpe
- Jim Thorpe Area High SchoolHigh · 490 students
- Carbon Career & Technical InstituteHigh · 375 students
Nearby schools
- Carbon Career & Technical Institute0.3 mi · 375
- Jim Thorpe Area High School0.4 mi · 490
- Lehighton Area Middle School3.3 mi · 478
- Lehighton Area Elementary Center3.7 mi · 1,005
- Lehighton Area High School3.8 mi · 630
- Panther Valley Elementary School4.4 mi · 556
Frequently asked questions
About L B Morris Elementary SchoolHow many students attend L B Morris Elementary School?
L B Morris Elementary School enrolls approximately 615 students in grades PK-08.
Is L B Morris Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
L B Morris Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does L B Morris Elementary School have?
L B Morris Elementary School employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
How diverse is L B Morris Elementary School?
L B Morris Elementary School reports a student body of 85% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is L B Morris Elementary School in?
L B Morris Elementary School is part of Jim Thorpe Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.