Salisbury El Sch

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Salisbury El Sch serves 461 students from grades K through 4, operated by Salisbury Township SD.

Salisbury El Sch is one of 3 schools operated by Salisbury Township SD, a district that caters to 1,455 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Salisbury El Sch lists that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, On paper, Salisbury El Sch has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Salisbury El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lehigh County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Salisbury El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.8%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Lehigh County put the typical household earns roughly $80,079 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Lehigh County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), Salisbury El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Arts Academy CS, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Salisbury El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Salisbury El Sch at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 25.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Salisbury El Sch has ticked up 19%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 461 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 18% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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