Bethlehem Elementary School

Bethlehem Elementary School is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Bethlehem, Georgia, operated by Barrow County, instructing 641 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Barrow County runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 15,313 students. Bethlehem Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bethlehem Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 27% Hispanic, 14% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Bethlehem Elementary School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bethlehem Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.6%; this one delivers 38.2%.

Zooming out to the county, Barrow County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,653 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Barrow County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,313 students), Bethlehem Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Austin Road Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bethlehem Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bethlehem Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 763 students in 2018 compared to 641 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 61% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

On this page, the feed for Bethlehem Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.