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How has Muhlenberg El Sch changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
606
Elementary
DISTRICT 497 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALLENTOWN CITY SD·NCES 420228002780
Muhlenberg Elementary School
740 N 21st St, Allentown, PA 18104 · (484) 765-4861 · Lehigh County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL606 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
19.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
591 students
DISTRICT 102% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 119 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (119) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
23.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -10.3pp since 2023
Math
22.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.3% | 22.2% |
| 2023-24 | 33.6% | 25.4% |
% 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
31.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Muhlenberg Elementary School
Muhlenberg Elementary School's state test result (31.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muhlenberg Elementary School this school | 606 | 97.5% | 31.2% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Allentown | 631 | 98.4% | 19.9% |
| Sheridan Elementary School Allentown | 591 | 97.1% | 19.2% |
| Dodson Elementary School Wilkes Barre | 522 | 92.5% | 29.1% |
| Ritter Elementary School Allentown | 463 | 92.0% | 25.4% |
| Lincoln CS York | 653 | 95.4% | 13.5% |
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 Muhlenberg Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #1,164 of 1,396 | #32 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #1,260 of 1,511 ▼ 63 | #35 of 45 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.3% | #1,306 of 1,511 ▼ 93 | #33 of 45 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 606 | #258 of 1,638 | #7 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #1,514 of 1,528 | #48 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #499 of 1,531 | #22 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.5% | #477 of 1,600 | #16 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +35.3% | #26 of 450 | #2 of 23 |
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
606
+125 (+26%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 606 | 31.3 | 19.4:1 | 98% (591) |
| 2023-24 | 591 | 31.9 | 18.5:1 | 100% (591) |
| 2022-23 | 488 | 32.5 | 15.0:1 | 100% (488) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | 29 | 16.6:1 | 99% (478) |
| 2017-18 | 448 | 28.5 | 15.7:1 | 100% (448) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 27 | 16.0:1 | 54% (235) |
| 2010-11 | 550 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 67% (366) |
| 2000-01 | 557 | 26 | 21.4:1 | 24% (131) |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 24 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Muhlenberg Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 35% (448 to 606); teachers up 10% (28.5 to 31.3).
About Muhlenberg Elementary School
Federal records list Muhlenberg Elementary School as an elementary school in Allentown, Pennsylvania. School enrollment was 606 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students.
Allentown City SD is the local district for Muhlenberg Elementary School. It runs 23 schools with 16,674 students.
At Muhlenberg Elementary School, Hispanic students make up 67% of the student body. Next come 12% Black, 10% White, and 10% multiracial. The county population is about 28% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Muhlenberg Elementary School employs 31.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 19.4:1. This ratio sits 6.3 above the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 98% in 2024-25. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in Lehigh County is 28 points.
allk12 grades Muhlenberg Elementary School a C-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Muhlenberg Elementary School, the prediction is 35.8% and the result is 31.2%.
Among Lehigh County residents, the median household income is $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Muhlenberg Elementary School is one of 83 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, William Allen High School, is about 0.8 miles from Muhlenberg Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Muhlenberg Elementary School places 2nd of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
In the federal locale system, Muhlenberg Elementary School is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment is up 26% from 2020-21, when Muhlenberg Elementary School had 481 students, to 2024-25, when it had 606. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.6:1 in 2020-21, and 19.4:1 in 2024-25.
The Muhlenberg Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Allentown City SD
- William Allen High SchoolHigh · 3,074 students
- Louis E Dieruff High SchoolHigh · 1,914 students
- South Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 972 students
- Francis D Raub Middle SchoolMiddle · 876 students
- Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Trexler Middle SchoolMiddle · 771 students
Other schools in Allentown
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 3,279 students
- William Allen High SchoolHigh · 3,074 students
- Louis E Dieruff High SchoolHigh · 1,914 students
- Executive Education Academy CSCombined · 1,497 students
- Springhouse Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
- Lincoln Leadership Academy CSCombined · 973 students
Nearby schools
- William Allen High School0.8 mi · 3,074
- Trexler Middle School0.8 mi · 771
- Jackson Early Childhood Center0.8 mi · 212
- Luis A. Ramos Elementary School0.8 mi · 695
- Union Terrace Elementary School1.0 mi · 674
- Francis D Raub Middle School1.0 mi · 876
Frequently asked questions
About Muhlenberg Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Muhlenberg Elementary School?
Muhlenberg Elementary School enrolls approximately 606 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Muhlenberg Elementary School serve?
Muhlenberg Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Muhlenberg Elementary School?
Approximately 19.4:1 students per teacher at Muhlenberg Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Muhlenberg Elementary School?
At Muhlenberg Elementary School, the student body is approximately 10% White, 67% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Muhlenberg Elementary School in?
Muhlenberg Elementary School is part of Allentown City SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.