Jaindl Students Diverted To Fogelsville School

Though the Parkland School District has 92 fewer students this school year than last year, with a total of 9,241 students, the Fred J. Jaindl Elementary School is as full as it can get for grades first, second and third.

Superintendent Richard Sniscak said Monday at a school board committee meeting that any additional students are now being diverted from Jaindl Elementary, 1051 Weilers Road, to , 312 S. Route 100, both in Breinigsville.

Jaindl, which opened just a year ago for the 2010-2011 school year, has a total enrollment of 651 students.

“They have a lot of affordable housing that continues to be constructed in that area,” Sniscak told the Personnel and Finance Committee. He added that school officials will continue to monitor the situation.

Also, Sniscak said, school in South Whitehall, with an enrollment of 506 students, is particularly full in the first and fifth grades.

School board member Roberta Marcus, who chairs the Personnel and Finance Committee, said that nearly 30 percent of the student population at Jaindl now receives free or reduced lunches.

“This is a shift in where our educational and financial demands are,” Marcus said, adding that people are often amazed to learn that every school in the Parkland district has some students receiving free or reduced lunches.

Sniscak said breakfast programs have been initiated in all of the district’s eight elementary schools.