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How has Parkway Manor Sch changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
569
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARKLAND SD·NCES 421851002826
Parkway Manor School
768 Parkway Rd, Allentown, PA 18104 · (610) 351-5850 · Lehigh County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL569 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
15.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
162 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
71.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
83.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.5% | 83.9% |
| 2023-24 | 78.5% | 78.5% |
% 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
80.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Parkway Manor School
Parkway Manor School's state test result (80.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkway Manor School this school | 569 | 28.5% | 80.1% |
| Fogelsville School Breinigsville | 480 | 32.9% | 78.8% |
| Kernsville School Orefield | 512 | 26.0% | 80.4% |
| McIntyre Elementary School Pittsburgh | 594 | 25.8% | 67.9% |
| Sugartown Elementary School Malvern | 449 | 30.3% | 61.4% |
| Nitrauer School Lancaster | 468 | 34.4% | 77.4% |
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 Parkway Manor School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #108 of 1,396 | #3 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.9% | #62 of 1,511 ▲ 43 | #2 of 45 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.5% | #191 of 1,511 ▼ 45 | #6 of 45 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 569 | #333 of 1,638 | #13 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #1,384 of 1,528 | #41 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.3% | #251 of 1,531 | #10 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.5% | #1,348 of 1,600 | #40 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.3% | #377 of 450 | #20 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
569
+48 (+9%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 672
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 569 | 35.8 | 15.9:1 | 28% (162) |
| 2023-24 | 551 | 36 | 15.3:1 | 29% (162) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 36.8 | 14.4:1 | 28% (148) |
| 2020-21 | 521 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 21% (109) |
| 2017-18 | 556 | 36.3 | 15.3:1 | 22% (124) |
| 2015-16 | 418 | 29 | 14.4:1 | 18% (74) |
| 2010-11 | 537 | 32 | 16.8:1 | 13% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 340 | 19 | 17.9:1 | 5% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 672 | 39 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkway Manor School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (556 to 569); teachers down 1% (36.3 to 35.8).
About Parkway Manor School
Parkway Manor School is one of the public schools in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The student body numbers 569 students, from kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Pennsylvania) has about 443 students.
Parkland SD has a total of 12 schools and 9,975 students, Parkway Manor School among them.
Roughly 54% of students at Parkway Manor School are White. The rest of enrollment is 20% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Parkway Manor School's diversity index is 63%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1 at Parkway Manor School, with 35.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania have 13.1:1, compared with 15.9:1 here. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 28% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Lehigh County is 70%.
Parkway Manor School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 94% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Parkway Manor School scores 80.1% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 65.4%.
Federal survey data for Lehigh County show that the median household income is $80,079, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Lehigh County is home to 83 public schools and about 56,984 public school students.
The nearest other public school, Springhouse Middle School, is about 0.8 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Parkway Manor School is 1st of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Parkway Manor School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 569 students in 2024-25, 48 more than the 521 it had in 2020-21. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (15.9:1) than in 2020-21 (14.9:1).
The Parkway Manor School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Parkland SD
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 3,279 students
- Springhouse Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
- Orefield Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,034 students
- Kernsville SchoolElementary · 512 students
- Kratzer SchoolElementary · 510 students
- Cetronia SchoolElementary · 496 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
- Springhouse Middle School0.8 mi · 1,329
- Cetronia School1.0 mi · 496
- Wescosville Elementary School2.1 mi · 465
- Muhlenberg Elementary School2.4 mi · 606
- Kratzer School2.6 mi · 510
- Union Terrace Elementary School2.8 mi · 674
Frequently asked questions
About Parkway Manor SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Parkway Manor School?
Parkway Manor School enrolls approximately 569 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Parkway Manor School serve?
Parkway Manor School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Parkway Manor School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Parkway Manor School is approximately 15.9:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Parkway Manor School?
At Parkway Manor School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 20% Hispanic, 3% Black, 17% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Parkway Manor School in?
Parkway Manor School is part of Parkland SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.