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Enrollment
530
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHLEHEM AREA SD·NCES 420357006723
Fountain Hill Elementary School
1330 Church St, Bethlehem, PA 18015 · (610) 865-5881 · Lehigh County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL530 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
439 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
13.4%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
12.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.4% | 12.1% |
| 2023-24 | 13.3% | 8.0% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
15.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fountain Hill Elementary School
Fountain Hill Elementary School's state test result (15.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain Hill Elementary School this school | 530 | 82.8% | 15.3% |
| Dodson Elementary School Wilkes Barre | 522 | 92.5% | 29.1% |
| Donegan Elementary School Bethlehem | 467 | 92.5% | 20.6% |
| Ritter Elementary School Allentown | 463 | 92.0% | 25.4% |
| Sheridan Elementary School Allentown | 591 | 97.1% | 19.2% |
| Muhlenberg Elementary School Allentown | 606 | 97.5% | 31.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fountain Hill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #1,335 of 1,396 | #43 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.1% | #1,386 of 1,511 ▲ 30 | #45 of 45 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.4% | #1,449 of 1,511 ▲ 29 | #41 of 45 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 530 | #443 of 1,638 | #17 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #320 of 1,528 | #3 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.8% | #682 of 1,531 | #33 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.8% | #693 of 1,600 | #22 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #356 of 450 | #18 of 23 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
530
+45 (+9%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 501
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 10.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 530 | 45.9 | 11.6:1 | 83% (439) |
| 2023-24 | 507 | 44.9 | 11.3:1 | 87% (439) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 45.4 | 11.3:1 | 86% (439) |
| 2020-21 | 485 | 46 | 10.5:1 | 87% (423) |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 47.4 | 10.9:1 | 90% (462) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 48 | 11.5:1 | 85% (472) |
| 2010-11 | 623 | 48 | 13.0:1 | 83% (516) |
| 2000-01 | 686 | 46 | 14.9:1 | 57% (392) |
| 1990-91 | 501 | 28 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fountain Hill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (515 to 530); teachers down 3% (47.4 to 45.9).
About Fountain Hill Elementary School
Fountain Hill Elementary School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It serves 530 students in pre-K through 5.
Federal data list 22 schools in Bethlehem Area SD, with 12,717 students enrolled.
By race and ethnicity, Fountain Hill Elementary School is 73% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 14% Black and 12% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Lehigh County's population at about 28%. The chance that two students picked at random at Fountain Hill Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 44%.
Dividing enrollment by its 45.9 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 11.6:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, higher than at this school. Fountain Hill Elementary School reports 83% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Lehigh County, the average is 70%.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Fountain Hill Elementary School receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Pennsylvania, Fountain Hill Elementary School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 15.3% compared with a predicted 42.1%.
Federal survey data for Lehigh County show that median household income is about $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fountain Hill Elementary School is among the 83 public schools in Lehigh County.
The shortest distance from Fountain Hill Elementary School to another public school is about 1.1 miles, to Broughal Middle School. The five-mile area around Fountain Hill Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 40.1%, higher than Fountain Hill Elementary School's 15.3%.
NCES assigns Fountain Hill Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 9%, from 485 to 530. The ratio was 10.5:1 in 2020-21 and 11.6:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Fountain Hill Elementary School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bethlehem Area SD
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 2,541 students
- Freedom High SchoolHigh · 1,792 students
- East Hills Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Nitschmann Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Northeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 715 students
- Spring Garden Elementary SchoolElementary · 532 students
Other schools in Bethlehem
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 2,541 students
- Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CSCombined · 1,878 students
- Freedom High SchoolHigh · 1,792 students
- East Hills Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Nitschmann Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Northeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 715 students
Nearby schools
- Broughal Middle School1.1 mi · 520
- Arts Academy CS1.2 mi · 296
- Calypso Elementary School1.4 mi · 222
- Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts1.6 mi · 550
- Salisbury Elementary School1.8 mi · 461
- Nitschmann Middle School2.0 mi · 731
Frequently asked questions
About Fountain Hill Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fountain Hill Elementary School?
Fountain Hill Elementary School enrolls approximately 530 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Fountain Hill Elementary School serve?
Fountain Hill Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Fountain Hill Elementary School?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at Fountain Hill Elementary School.
How diverse is Fountain Hill Elementary School?
Fountain Hill Elementary School reports a student body of 12% White, 73% Hispanic, 14% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Fountain Hill Elementary School?
Fountain Hill Elementary School is overseen by Bethlehem Area SD in Lehigh County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.