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Enrollment
457
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEHIGH VALLEY DUAL LANGUAGE CS·NCES 420083207361
Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS
675 E Broad Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018 · (610) 419-3120 · Northampton County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL457 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% 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.
- C-Beats 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
19.9:1
23 FTE teachers
STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
454 students
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 41 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 24% larger than its 8th grade class (41).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
28.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.5pp since 2023
Math
18.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.8% | 18.1% |
| 2023-24 | 33.3% | 16.9% |
% 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
25.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS
Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS's state test result (25.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS this school | 457 | 99.3% | 25.6% |
| Tyson-Schoener Elementary School Reading | 408 | 94.1% | 25.1% |
| Lauers Park Elementary School Reading | 615 | 92.0% | 27.2% |
| Sixteenth & Haak Elementary School Reading | 527 | 98.7% | 26.9% |
| Taylor Bayard School Philadelphia | 394 | 98.2% | 12.0% |
| Riverside Elementary School Reading | 694 | 99.7% | 19.6% |
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 Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #1,231 of 1,396 | #31 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #1,306 of 1,511 no change | #34 of 34 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #1,221 of 1,511 ▼ 4 | #27 of 34 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 457 | #661 of 1,638 | #14 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.9:1 | #1,517 of 1,528 | #35 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.9% | #1,449 of 1,531 | #35 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #348 of 1,600 | #6 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.4% | #1,029 of 1,045 | #25 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
457
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
+94% since 2010-11, when it was 236
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 457 | 23 | 19.9:1 | 99% (454) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 25 | 18.2:1 | 99% (451) |
| 2022-23 | 456 | 25 | 18.2:1 | 99% (453) |
| 2020-21 | 452 | 24 | 18.8:1 | 99% (449) |
| 2017-18 | 459 | 24 | 19.1:1 | 98% (451) |
| 2015-16 | 428 | 24 | 17.8:1 | 100% (428) |
| 2010-11 | 236 | 15 | 15.7:1 | 97% (228) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (459 to 457); teachers down 4% (24 to 23).
About Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS
Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The latest federal count shows 457 students in kindergarten through 8.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS's enrollment is 95% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 3% Black. The school's Hispanic share is 80 points above the 16% share among Northampton County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 9% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 23 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 19.9:1. That is 6.8 students per teacher above the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS reports 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Northampton County average 61%.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS would be expected to post about 35.0%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 25.6%.
Northampton County has these Census figures: the median household income is $89,184, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. In all, Northampton County has 60 public schools and roughly 38,316 students.
Nearest public school: Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS ranks 6th of 9 on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. Charter status: Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS is a public charter school.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 452 in 2020-21 and 457 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 18.8:1 in 2020-21 to 19.9:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Related schools
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
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School0.3 mi · 238
- Northeast Middle School0.5 mi · 715
- Liberty High School0.7 mi · 2,541
- Donegan Elementary School0.8 mi · 467
- Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts0.9 mi · 550
- William Penn Elementary School1.1 mi · 242
Frequently asked questions
About Lehigh Valley Dual Language CSWhat is the total enrollment at Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS?
Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS enrolls approximately 457 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS serve?
Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS?
Approximately 19.9:1 students per teacher at Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS?
At Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS, the student body is approximately 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 3% Black.
Is Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS public or private?
Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.