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Tracy Elementary School
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
School pathway
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.1% | 64.5% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 50.7% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
Where Tracy Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #575 of 1,396 | #14 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #408 of 1,511 ▲ 328 | #8 of 34 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #397 of 1,511 ▲ 434 | #8 of 34 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #840 of 1,638 | #18 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #985 of 1,528 | #30 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #108 of 1,531 | #3 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 103% | #176 of 1,600 | #2 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.5% | #229 of 1,045 | #4 of 25 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 410 | 29.9 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 415 | 32.7 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 414 | 32.7 | 12.7:1 | 100% (414) |
| 2020-21 | 432 | 34 | 12.7:1 | 32% (137) |
| 2017-18 | 529 | 33.8 | 15.7:1 | 36% (190) |
| 2015-16 | 317 | 19 | 16.7:1 | 23% (73) |
| 2010-11 | 414 | 27 | 15.3:1 | 16% (66) |
| 2000-01 | 590 | 32 | 18.4:1 | 4% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 560 | 27 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (529 to 410); teachers down 12% (33.8 to 29.9).
About Tracy Elementary School
Tracy Elementary School is an elementary school in Easton, Pennsylvania, reachable at (610) 250-2556. It enrolled 410 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Easton Area SD includes 9 schools. Together they enroll 7,928 students.
White students form the largest group at Tracy Elementary School, 46% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 10% Black, and 7% multiracial. By comparison, Northampton County residents are about 74% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Tracy Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 70%.
Its 29.9 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 13.7:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have a similar average ratio of 13.1:1.
The allk12 Grade for Tracy Elementary School is A-. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 80% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 33.5% for Tracy Elementary School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 60.5%. The 27.0-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
Northampton County has about 318,580 residents, and median household income is about $89,184, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 60 public schools in Northampton County, with a combined enrollment of about 38,316.
Easton Area Middle School is the closest public school, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, Tracy Elementary School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
Locale data from NCES put Tracy Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Federal counts put enrollment at 432 in 2020-21 and 410 in 2024-25, a 5% decrease. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.7:1) than in 2020-21 (12.7:1).
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