Lehighton Area MS

Lehighton Area MS is one of the modestly sized 6-8 campuss in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, operated by Lehighton Area SD, with 478 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Lehighton Area MS is one of 3 schools operated by Lehighton Area SD, a district that instructs 2,113 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lehighton Area MS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lehighton Area MS has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Lehighton Area MS tighter than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Carbon County's rate of about 65%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lehighton Area MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.1%; this one delivers 39.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Carbon County) shows that median household income runs about $67,554, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Carbon County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,111 students), Lehighton Area MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lehighton Area Elementary Center, around 0.4 miles off. 5 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), Lehighton Area MS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lehighton Area MS has edged down 36%, going from 752 students in 2018 to 478 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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