Good Shepherd Elementary School, Northampton, is opening its doors on Newport Avenue to students on Monday, Aug. 25, for the beginning of the 2014-15 school year.

Principal Irene Quigley, who served in a similar role at Christ the King, said enrollment in kindergarten through eighth grade currently stands at 270 children. The number swells to 310 when taking into account preschool children, some of whom attend for full days and others who attend for half days.

The school continues to focus on its technology department. Along with new laptop computers, the lab will offer new iPads and other computer related items.

To get the students and parents in a school and activities mode, there will be an ice cream social held by Good Shepherd, Formerly Our Lady of Hungary, Aug. 24.

A Back to School Night will take place Sept. 4, Quigley said.

The school is staffed by 18 full-time teachers and five part-time personnel.

Good Shepherd serves the parishes of St. Peter's, Coplay; St. John the Baptist, Stiles, Whitehall; Holy Trinity, Egypt, Whitehall; Assumption BVM, Northampton; Queenship of Mary, Northampton; and St. John Fisher, Catasauqua and North Catasauqua.