Northeast MS

As a reasonably sized intermediate school in Reading, Pennsylvania, Northeast MS enrolls 868 students from grades 5 through 8, operated by Reading SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Northeast MS sits 46% above that benchmark.

Reading SD runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 16,423 students. Northeast MS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northeast MS lists that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 6% White, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Northeast MS has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 106% of students at Northeast MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Berks County's rate of about 67%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Berks County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,777, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Berks County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), Northeast MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Twelfth & Marion El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northeast MS.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 931 students in 2018 compared to 868 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 83% to 88%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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