Donegan El Sch

Donegan El Sch operates as an average-sized primary school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, overseen by Bethlehem Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 467 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Bethlehem Area SD comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 12,717 students; Donegan El Sch is among them.

Demographically, Donegan El Sch reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Black, 7% White. By comparison, Northampton County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Donegan El Sch records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Northampton County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Donegan El Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.9%; actual is 20.6%, a gap of -17.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Northampton County shows median household income runs about $89,184, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Donegan El Sch is one of 60 public schools in Northampton County (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Donegan El Sch ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 30.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 513 students in 2018 compared to 467 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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