Liberty Bell El Sch

Liberty Bell El Sch operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Southern Lehigh SD. Current enrollment sits at 445 students spanning grades K through 3.

Liberty Bell El Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Southern Lehigh SD, a district that works with 3,057 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Liberty Bell El Sch reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Liberty Bell El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lehigh County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Liberty Bell El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.0%, the actual is 82.4%, a residual of +10.4 points.

Zooming out to the 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. Liberty Bell El Sch is one of 83 public schools in Lehigh County (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students).

Nearest neighbor: Southern Lehigh SHS, around 1.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Liberty Bell El Sch comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 413 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 85% to 74%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Liberty Bell El Sch typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.