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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6

Towamensing El Sch, Lehighton, PA

Towamensing El Sch is a public elementary school in Lehighton, part of Palmerton Area SD. It enrolled 328 students in 2024-25, with 10.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
328
Teachers (FTE)
30.0
Students per teacher
10.9
Grades
K to 6

This school's ratio is 0.6 lower than the district figure of 11.5. The Pennsylvania average across schools is 13.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school10.9
District11.5
Pennsylvania13.5
United States15.3

School details

Address
7920 Interchange Rd, Lehighton, PA 18235
Phone
(610)681-4024
District
Palmerton Area SD
County
Carbon County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
421836001319
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
126
Reduced-price lunch
5
Free or reduced-price lunch
13139.9% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Palmerton Area SD

Elementary schools elsewhere in Lehighton

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.