Ritter El Sch

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Ritter El Sch works with 463 students from grades K through 5, part of Allentown City SD.

Allentown City SD runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 16,674 students. Ritter El Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Ritter El Sch records that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 12% White, 11% Black, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Ritter El Sch has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Ritter El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Lehigh County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ritter El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lehigh County) logs that median household earnings sit near $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lehigh County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), Ritter El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Leadership Academy CS, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ritter El Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ritter El Sch has declined 23%, going from 604 students in 2018 to 463 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 21% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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