Plainfield El Sch

Located at 539 School Rd, in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Plainfield El Sch is an average-sized K-5 school that teaches 434 students (grades K through 3), overseen by Pen Argyl Area SD.

Pen Argyl Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,419 students; Plainfield El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Plainfield El Sch logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 53% of students at Plainfield El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Northampton County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Plainfield El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.5%.

Around the school, Northampton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,184 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Plainfield El Sch is one of 60 public schools in Northampton County (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students).

Kenneth N Butz Jr El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Plainfield El Sch at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 62.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Plainfield El Sch's enrollment has edged up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 434). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 89% to 79%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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