Catasauqua MS

Catasauqua MS is one of the low-enrollment middle-grades schools in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, part of Catasauqua Area SD, with 477 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8.

Catasauqua Area SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,533 students. Catasauqua MS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Catasauqua MS lists that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 38% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Lehigh County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Catasauqua MS has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at Catasauqua MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lehigh County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Catasauqua MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -0.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lehigh County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,079 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lehigh County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), of which Catasauqua MS is one.

The closest other public school is Francis H Sheckler El Sch, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Catasauqua MS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Catasauqua MS has remained close to its prior level, going from 489 students in 2018 to 477 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 56% to 47% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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