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Parkway Manor Sch
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Parkway Manor Sch
Parkway Manor Sch is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Allentown, Pennsylvania, operated by Parkland SD, with 569 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 28% above the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.
Parkland SD runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 9,975 students. Parkway Manor Sch is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Parkway Manor Sch shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 28% of students at Parkway Manor Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lehigh County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Parkway Manor Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.4%; this one delivers 80.1%.
Around the school, census data for Lehigh County shows 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. Parkway Manor Sch is one of 83 public schools in Lehigh County (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students).
Springhouse MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Parkway Manor Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.
Parkway Manor Sch operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 556 students in 2018 compared to 569 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 20% across the same window.
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