Mosser El Sch

Mosser El Sch is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Allentown, Pennsylvania, part of Allentown City SD, with 551 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Allentown City SD runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 16,674 students. Mosser El Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mosser El Sch lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment; the rest consists of 9% multiracial, 8% Black, 6% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 103% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mosser El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 21.6%, a residual of -11.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lehigh County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,079 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Mosser El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Harrison-Morton MS, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mosser El Sch at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 21.6%.

Mosser El Sch operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 549 students in 2018 compared to 551 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 12% to 8% over that span.

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