Macungie El Sch

Located at 4062 Brookside Rd, in Macungie, Pennsylvania, Macungie El Sch is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 529 students (grades K through 5), operated by East Penn SD.

East Penn SD runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,815 students. Macungie El Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Macungie El Sch lists that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, Macungie El Sch has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lehigh County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Macungie El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 68.6%, a residual of +5.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lehigh County put median household income runs about $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lehigh County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), Macungie El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Shoemaker El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Macungie El Sch comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Macungie El Sch has held roughly steady, going from 523 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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