Thirteenth & Union El Sch

Set in Reading, Pennsylvania, Thirteenth & Union El Sch is a medium-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Reading SD. It serves 641 students across grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 45% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Within Reading SD, which oversees 19 schools and 16,423 students, Thirteenth & Union El Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Thirteenth & Union El Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Other groups include 6% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Thirteenth & Union El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Thirteenth & Union El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.5%; this one delivers 25.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Berks County shows median household income runs about $79,777, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Thirteenth & Union El Sch is one.

Northeast MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thirteenth & Union El Sch. On composite proficiency, Thirteenth & Union El Sch comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 22.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thirteenth & Union El Sch has ticked down 28%, going from 885 students in 2018 to 641 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.