Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS

Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS is a mid-tier elementary-level community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS. The school serves 457 students in grades K through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%); the rest reads as 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Northampton County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Northampton County indicate median household income runs about $89,184, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS is one of 60 public schools in Northampton County (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students).

Thomas Jefferson El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS. On composite proficiency, Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

The school occupies an urban site. As a public charter, Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 459 (now 457).

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