Twelfth & Marion El Sch

Twelfth & Marion El Sch operates as a medium-sized primary school in Reading, Pennsylvania, run under Reading SD. Current enrollment sits at 459 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Reading SD comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 16,423 students; Twelfth & Marion El Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Twelfth & Marion El Sch lists that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Twelfth & Marion El Sch logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 107% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Berks County's rate of about 67%.

In the surrounding community, Berks County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Twelfth & Marion El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Northeast MS, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 36%: 719 students in 2018 compared to 459 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 86% to 92%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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