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Enrollment
593
Elementary
DISTRICT 447 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST PENN SD·NCES 420855007352
Willow Lane Elementary School
6135 Sauerkraut Ln, Macungie, PA 18062 · (484) 519-3300 · Lehigh County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL593 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
161 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
66.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -0.3pp since 2023
Math
66.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.9% | 66.2% |
| 2023-24 | 67.2% | 62.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Willow Lane Elementary School
Willow Lane Elementary School's state test result (68.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Lane Elementary School this school | 593 | 27.2% | 68.0% |
| Shoemaker Elementary School Macungie | 537 | 24.4% | 72.8% |
| Green Valley Elementary School Sinking Spring | 505 | 28.3% | 56.4% |
| Phoenixville Early Learning Center Phoenixville | 613 | 32.3% | N/A |
| Macungie Elementary School Macungie | 529 | 34.0% | 68.6% |
| Roundtown Elementary School York | 573 | 30.5% | 72.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Willow Lane Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #351 of 1,396 | #16 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #366 of 1,511 ▲ 73 | #13 of 45 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #274 of 1,511 ▲ 129 | #13 of 45 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 593 | #274 of 1,638 | #9 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #871 of 1,528 | #20 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #406 of 1,531 | #17 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.2% | #1,361 of 1,600 | #42 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.9% | #487 of 1,045 | #8 of 23 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
593
-26 (-4%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 699
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 15.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 593 | 44.4 | 13.4:1 | 27% (161) |
| 2023-24 | 607 | 43.9 | 13.8:1 | 27% (161) |
| 2022-23 | 609 | 44.2 | 13.8:1 | 26% (157) |
| 2020-21 | 619 | 39 | 15.9:1 | 23% (142) |
| 2017-18 | 689 | 39.5 | 17.4:1 | 20% (140) |
| 2015-16 | 743 | 38 | 19.6:1 | 18% (134) |
| 2010-11 | 699 | 33 | 21.2:1 | 9% (65) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Willow Lane Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (689 to 593); teachers up 12% (39.5 to 44.4).
About Willow Lane Elementary School
Willow Lane Elementary School runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Macungie, Pennsylvania. Enrollment stands at 593 students, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 34% above the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Willow Lane Elementary School is one school in a 10-school district, East Penn SD, which enrolls 7,815 students.
About 62% of the student body at Willow Lane Elementary School is White. Smaller groups are 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Black, and 6% Asian. Lehigh County residents are about 62% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at Willow Lane Elementary School are from different groups.
A staff of 44.4 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 13.4:1. The ratio is within a point of the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 27%. That is 43 points below the 70% average for public schools in Lehigh County.
Willow Lane Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 64% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Willow Lane Elementary School scores 68.0% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 66.0%.
In Lehigh County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $80,079 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Willow Lane Elementary School, Lehigh County has 83 public schools.
A public school about 1.2 miles away, Lower Macungie Middle School, is the closest to Willow Lane Elementary School. Willow Lane Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Willow Lane Elementary School comes in 6th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Willow Lane Elementary School enrolled 619 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 593. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 15.9:1 in 2020-21 to 13.4:1 in 2024-25.
Willow Lane Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Penn SD
- Emmaus High SchoolHigh · 2,842 students
- Lower Macungie Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,041 students
- Eyer Middle SchoolMiddle · 804 students
- Shoemaker Elementary SchoolElementary · 537 students
- Macungie Elementary SchoolElementary · 529 students
- Wescosville Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
Other schools in Macungie
- Lower Macungie Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,041 students
- Eyer Middle SchoolMiddle · 804 students
- Shoemaker Elementary SchoolElementary · 537 students
- Macungie Elementary SchoolElementary · 529 students
Other Willow Lane Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Willow Lane Elementary. Willow Lane Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Willow Lane ElementaryWHITE BEAR LAKE, MN · 279 students
Nearby schools
- Lower Macungie Middle School1.2 mi · 1,041
- Eyer Middle School1.7 mi · 804
- Shoemaker Elementary School1.8 mi · 537
- Macungie Elementary School1.9 mi · 529
- Wescosville Elementary School2.2 mi · 465
- Alburtis Elementary School2.7 mi · 360
Frequently asked questions
About Willow Lane Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Willow Lane Elementary School?
Willow Lane Elementary School enrolls approximately 593 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Willow Lane Elementary School serve?
Willow Lane Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Willow Lane Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Willow Lane Elementary School is approximately 13.4:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Willow Lane Elementary School?
Student demographics at Willow Lane Elementary School are roughly 62% White, 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Willow Lane Elementary School in?
Willow Lane Elementary School is part of East Penn SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.