Tamaqua El Sch

Located at Boyle Ave, in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, Tamaqua El Sch is a big elementary-level community that serves 697 students (grades K through 5), run under Tamaqua Area SD. That puts it 57% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Within Tamaqua Area SD, which oversees 4 schools and 2,048 students, Tamaqua El Sch is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Tamaqua El Sch reports that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Tamaqua El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Tamaqua El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the area at large, Schuylkill County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,313 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Schuylkill County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,259 students), Tamaqua El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Tamaqua Area SHS, roughly 0.8 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Tamaqua El Sch comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 636 students in 2018 compared to 697 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 72% across the same window.

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