Maple Manor El/MS

Located at 1700 W 22nd Street, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, Maple Manor El/MS is a sprawling middle school that serves 1,092 students (grades 3 through 8), one of the schools within Hazleton Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 84% above the state mean of about 594.

Within Hazleton Area SD, which oversees 11 schools and 13,071 students, Maple Manor El/MS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maple Manor El/MS records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Other groups include 8% White. By comparison, Luzerne County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Maple Manor El/MS has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.9:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Maple Manor El/MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Luzerne County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Maple Manor El/MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of -16.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Luzerne County put median household income runs about $63,691, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Luzerne County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,209 students), Maple Manor El/MS is one campus in the mix.

Hazleton Area HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Maple Manor El/MS at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 29.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Maple Manor El/MS's enrollment has grew 27% since 2018, when it stood at 860 (now 1,092). Hispanic enrollment moved from 81% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

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