Penn-Kidder Campus

Penn-Kidder Campus, a reasonably sized primary school in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, operated by Jim Thorpe Area SD, teaches 541 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 22% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 3 schools in Jim Thorpe Area SD (1,646 students total), Penn-Kidder Campus accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Penn-Kidder Campus logs that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the resource side, Penn-Kidder Campus records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Penn-Kidder Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Carbon County shows median household earnings sit near $67,554, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Carbon County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,111 students), Penn-Kidder Campus is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Tobyhanna El Ctr, around 7.8 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Penn-Kidder Campus comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

Penn-Kidder Campus operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Penn-Kidder Campus's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 686 (now 541). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 12% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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