Lehigh El Sch

Lehigh El Sch is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Walnutport, Pennsylvania, run under Northampton Area SD, with 474 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Northampton Area SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 5,113 students. Lehigh El Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lehigh El Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder reads as 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, Lehigh El Sch shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Northampton County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lehigh El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.7%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Northampton County put median household income runs about $89,184, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Northampton County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students), Lehigh El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Northern Lehigh MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lehigh El Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lehigh El Sch has decreased 8%, going from 515 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 91% to 85%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.