Lincoln El Sch

Lincoln El Sch, a small elementary school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, run under Bethlehem Area SD, hosts 355 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Bethlehem Area SD, which oversees 22 schools and 12,717 students, Lincoln El Sch is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Lincoln El Sch logs that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 21% White, 10% Black. By comparison, Northampton County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Lincoln El Sch has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lincoln El Sch falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.1%; this one comes in at 30.1%, -19.0 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Northampton County shows median household income runs about $89,184, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Lincoln El Sch is one of 60 public schools in Northampton County (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students).

Nearest neighbor: Marvine El Sch, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lincoln El Sch comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 5%: 339 students in 2018 compared to 355 in 2025.

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