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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Paxinosa El Sch this year?
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Enrollment
572
Elementary
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EASTON AREA SD·NCES 420885005350
Paxinosa Elementary School
1221 Northampton St, Easton, PA 18042 · (610) 250-2551 · Northampton County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL572 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
11.4:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
570 students
DISTRICT 101% · 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 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Easton Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
18.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.5pp since 2023
Math
20.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.6% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 24.1% | 20.3% |
% 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
25.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Paxinosa Elementary School
Paxinosa Elementary School's state test result (25.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paxinosa Elementary School this school | 572 | 99.7% | 25.0% |
| Whitehall Elementary School Norristown | 503 | 98.6% | 32.5% |
| Marshall Street Elementary School Norristown | 585 | 96.8% | 35.5% |
| Webster School Philadelphia | 510 | 98.8% | 22.8% |
| Benjamin Chambers Elementary School Chambersburg | 583 | 96.7% | 39.4% |
| Muhlenberg Elementary School Allentown | 606 | 97.5% | 31.2% |
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 Paxinosa Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #1,239 of 1,396 | #32 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #1,277 of 1,511 ▼ 22 | #31 of 34 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #1,370 of 1,511 ▼ 17 | #34 of 34 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 572 | #323 of 1,638 | #6 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #285 of 1,528 | #8 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.2% | #252 of 1,531 | #8 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.7% | #320 of 1,600 | #5 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.4% | #679 of 1,045 | #17 of 25 |
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
572
-75 (-12%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 579
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 572 | 50.1 | 11.4:1 | 100% (570) |
| 2023-24 | 562 | 52.5 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 56.3 | 10.3:1 | 100% (579) |
| 2020-21 | 647 | 49 | 13.2:1 | 98% (633) |
| 2017-18 | 631 | 47.1 | 13.4:1 | 95% (599) |
| 2015-16 | 597 | 45 | 13.3:1 | 100% (597) |
| 2010-11 | 641 | 48 | 13.3:1 | 82% (525) |
| 2000-01 | 505 | 34 | 14.8:1 | 49% (245) |
| 1990-91 | 579 | 33 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Paxinosa Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (631 to 572); teachers up 6% (47.1 to 50.1).
About Paxinosa Elementary School
Paxinosa Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Easton Area SD, located in Easton, Pennsylvania. In all, 572 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5. That is 29% larger than the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
The district for Paxinosa Elementary School is Easton Area SD, with 9 schools and 7,928 students.
The student body at Paxinosa Elementary School is 55% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 17% Black, 16% White, and 11% multiracial. Northampton County's residents are about 16% Hispanic, 39 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 63% means there is a 63% chance two randomly chosen students at Paxinosa Elementary School are from different groups.
The school has 50.1 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.4 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school reported 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Northampton County report 61%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Paxinosa Elementary School outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
After adjusting for student poverty, Paxinosa Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 25.0%; the prediction is 34.9%.
In the surrounding county, Northampton County, the median household earns about $89,184 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Northampton County has 60 public schools with about 38,316 students, including Paxinosa Elementary School.
Paxinosa Elementary School's nearest public school is Easton Arts Academy Elementary CS (about 0.8 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Paxinosa Elementary School is 9th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
In the federal locale system, Paxinosa Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 647 students in 2020-21 to 572 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.2:1 to 11.4:1.
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Northampton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
318,580
Census ACS
Median income
$89,184
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
38,316 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Easton Area SD
- Easton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Easton Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,879 students
- Shawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Cheston Elementary SchoolElementary · 559 students
- Palmer Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
- Tracy Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
Other schools in Easton
- Easton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Easton Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,879 students
- Wilson Area High SchoolHigh · 709 students
- Wilson Area Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Shawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Cheston Elementary SchoolElementary · 559 students
Nearby schools
- Easton Arts Academy Elementary CS0.8 mi · 254
- Wilson Borough Elementary School0.9 mi · 285
- Shawnee Elementary School1.0 mi · 567
- Easton Area Middle School1.0 mi · 1,879
- Wilson Area High School1.0 mi · 709
- Cheston Elementary School1.2 mi · 559
Frequently asked questions
About Paxinosa Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Paxinosa Elementary School?
Paxinosa Elementary School enrolls approximately 572 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Paxinosa Elementary School serve?
Paxinosa Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Paxinosa Elementary School?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at Paxinosa Elementary School.
How diverse is Paxinosa Elementary School?
Paxinosa Elementary School reports a student body of 16% White, 55% Hispanic, 17% Black, 0% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Paxinosa Elementary School?
Paxinosa Elementary School is overseen by Easton Area SD in Northampton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.