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Reading, Pennsylvania - 6 schools
An equity score of 40/100 ranks Exeter Township Sd #406 of 648 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,637 per pupil, Exeter Township Sd ranks #297 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,923
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$17,637
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Exeter Township Sd operates 6 public schools serving 3,923 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Berks County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,637 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 66.0% local, 27.8% state, and 6.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 40/100, ranked #406 of 648 in Pennsylvania against a state average of 49, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (25 AP courses district-wide), a 367.9:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 12.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 64.7% White, 22.8% Hispanic or Latino, 5.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Jacksonwald El Sch, with a diversity index of 61.6/100.
Its largest campus is Exeter Twp Shs, enrolling 1,312 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Jacksonwald El Sch, at 370 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Exeter Twp Shs accounts for 33.4% of all Exeter Township Sd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Exeter Township Sd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Exeter Township Sd school enrollment varies 3.5× across entities
Exeter Township Sd school enrollment ranges from 370 students (lowest) to 1,312 students (highest), a spread of 942 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Exeter Township Sd student-counselor ratio is 368:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Exeter Township Sd chronic absenteeism rate is 12.8% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.