Enrollment
328
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHLEHEM AREA SD·NCES 420357003458
Freemansburg Elementary School
501 Monroe St, Freemansburg, PA 18017 · (610) 866-6681 · Northampton County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL328 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% 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.
- DBeats 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
10.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
299 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
54%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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
22.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.4pp since 2023
Math
19.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.4% | 19.2% |
| 2023-24 | 23.8% | 14.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Freemansburg Elementary School
Freemansburg Elementary School's state test result (21.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freemansburg Elementary School this school | 328 | 91.2% | 21.5% |
| Stevens Elementary School Chambersburg | 305 | 100.0% | 32.2% |
| Burrowes Elementary School Lancaster | 308 | 85.4% | 36.0% |
| Hamilton Elementary School Lancaster | 339 | 98.8% | 39.0% |
| Ross Elementary School Lancaster | 281 | 94.0% | 40.2% |
| Fulton Elementary School Lancaster | 274 | 99.3% | 38.5% |
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 Freemansburg Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #1,274 of 1,396 | #33 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #1,295 of 1,511 ▲ 33 | #32 of 34 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #1,321 of 1,511 ▲ 35 | #32 of 34 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 328 | #1,141 of 1,638 | #25 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #180 of 1,528 | #4 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.0% | #468 of 1,531 | #17 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.2% | #646 of 1,600 | #11 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.5% | #542 of 1,045 | #14 of 25 |
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
328
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
+61% since 1990-91, when it was 204
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 328 | 30.2 | 10.9:1 | 91% (299) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 29.6 | 12.2:1 | 83% (299) |
| 2022-23 | 347 | 28.2 | 12.3:1 | 78% (270) |
| 2020-21 | 327 | 27 | 12.1:1 | 81% (266) |
| 2017-18 | 375 | 29.9 | 12.5:1 | 84% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 368 | 26 | 14.2:1 | 88% (322) |
| 2010-11 | 432 | 30 | 14.4:1 | 76% (330) |
| 2000-01 | 344 | 26 | 13.2:1 | 59% (204) |
| 1990-91 | 204 | 11 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Freemansburg Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (375 to 328); teachers up 1% (29.9 to 30.2).
About Freemansburg Elementary School
Families in Freemansburg, Pennsylvania, are served by Freemansburg Elementary School, a small elementary school. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 328 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 443 students on average.
Freemansburg Elementary School sits within Bethlehem Area SD, which has 22 schools and 12,717 students.
Hispanic students are 63% of those enrolled at Freemansburg Elementary School. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% White and 12% Black. In Northampton County overall, about 16% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 30.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, 13.1:1, is higher. Roughly 91% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Northampton County, the average eligibility rate is 61%.
On the allk12 Grade, Freemansburg Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 9% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
A school with Freemansburg Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Pennsylvania is predicted to score 38.5%. Freemansburg Elementary School scores 21.5%, 17.0 points below that line.
Northampton County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $89,184, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 60 public schools in the county, enrolling about 38,316, Freemansburg Elementary School among them.
Marvine Elementary School is the nearest public school to Freemansburg Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 21.5% average proficiency ranks 8th among 9 nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, Freemansburg Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Freemansburg Elementary School was 327 in 2020-21 and 328 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Students per teacher dropped from 12.1 in 2020-21 to 10.9 in 2024-25.
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Northampton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
318,580
Census ACS
Median income
$89,184
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
38,316 students
Quick facts
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- Marvine Elementary School0.5 mi · 265
- Lincoln Elementary School1.0 mi · 355
- Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS1.2 mi · 457
- Northeast Middle School1.2 mi · 715
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School1.5 mi · 238
- Donegan Elementary School1.5 mi · 467
Frequently asked questions
About Freemansburg Elementary SchoolHow large is Freemansburg Elementary School?
Freemansburg Elementary School enrolls approximately 328 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Freemansburg Elementary School serve?
Freemansburg Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Freemansburg Elementary School have?
Freemansburg Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Freemansburg Elementary School?
Student demographics at Freemansburg Elementary School are roughly 23% White, 63% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Freemansburg Elementary School in?
Freemansburg Elementary School is part of Bethlehem Area SD.
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