Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS

Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS is one of the moderately sized K-12 campuss in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, overseen by Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS, with 1,878 students on its rolls from grades K through 12.

Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS is the operating authority for Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% White, 11% Black, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Lehigh County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 158 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Lehigh County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Lehigh County shows median household income runs about $80,079, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS is one.

Asa Packer El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 47.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 9%: 1,719 students in 2018 compared to 1,878 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 32% to 51%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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