Tenth & Green El Sch

Tenth & Green El Sch is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in Reading, Pennsylvania, part of Reading SD, with 564 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Tenth & Green El Sch sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 19 schools in Reading SD (16,423 students total), Tenth & Green El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Tenth & Green El Sch logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Tenth & Green El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Around 102% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Berks County's rate of about 67%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tenth & Green El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 29.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Berks County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Tenth & Green El Sch is one of 95 public schools in Berks County (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thirteenth & Green El Sch, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tenth & Green El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 22.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Tenth & Green El Sch's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 670 (now 564).

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