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If you could change one rule at Nazareth Area HS, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,607
High
DISTRICT 814 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NAZARETH AREA SD·NCES 421638003495
Nazareth Area High School
501 East Center Street, Nazareth, PA 18064 · (610) 759-1730 · Northampton County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,607 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
103 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
421 students
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 375 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 415 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 395 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 422 | 26% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Nazareth Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
73.9%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
61.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.9% | 61.1% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 49.1% |
% 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
63.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 Nazareth Area High School
Nazareth Area High School's state test result (63.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nazareth Area High School this school | 1,607 | 26.2% | 63.4% |
| Owen J Roberts High School Pottstown | 1,810 | 21.9% | 64.5% |
| Perkiomen Valley High School Collegeville | 1,616 | 22.1% | 72.3% |
| Moon Area SHS Moon Township | 1,211 | 29.2% | 67.5% |
| Fox Chapel Area High School Pittsburgh | 1,360 | 22.6% | 89.8% |
| Downingtown HS West Campus Downingtown | 1,796 | 18.9% | 71.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Nazareth Area High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.4% | #127 of 576 | #3 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #99 of 626 ▲ 85 | #2 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #116 of 626 ▲ 45 | #4 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,607 | #67 of 713 | #5 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #450 of 601 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.0% | #246 of 604 | #8 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.2% | #560 of 619 | #10 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.4% | #163 of 221 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,607
+79 (+5%) vs 2020
+129% since 1990-91, when it was 703
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 1,607 | 102.6 | 15.7:1 | 26% (421) |
| 2023-24 | 1,627 | 106.3 | 15.3:1 | 26% (421) |
| 2022-23 | 1,594 | 99.8 | 16.0:1 | 22% (350) |
| 2020-21 | 1,528 | 91 | 16.8:1 | 16% (251) |
| 2017-18 | 1,554 | 92.5 | 16.8:1 | 15% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 1,506 | 90 | 16.7:1 | 16% (238) |
| 2010-11 | 1,581 | 102 | 15.5:1 | 10% (152) |
| 2000-01 | 1,175 | 73 | 16.1:1 | 6% (73) |
| 1990-91 | 703 | 50 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nazareth Area High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (1,554 to 1,607); teachers up 11% (92.5 to 102.6).
About Nazareth Area High School
Nazareth Area High School, located in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, is a large high school. The school teaches grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,607 students. It has 118% more students than the average for high schools in Pennsylvania (about 738).
Nazareth Area SD operates 6 schools. Combined enrollment is 4,884 students.
More than half of enrollment at Nazareth Area High School is White: 78%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Nazareth Area High School scores 37%.
With 102.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.7:1. Statewide, high schools in Pennsylvania average 12.8:1. Roughly 26% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Northampton County report 61%.
On the allk12 Grade, Nazareth Area High School lands at B+, ahead of 67% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 66.4% for Nazareth Area High School. The school posts 63.4%, 3.0 points below the prediction.
In the wider Northampton County area, median household income comes to about $89,184, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Northampton County's 60 public schools enroll about 38,316 students and include Nazareth Area High School.
Shafer Elementary School is about 0.2 miles from Nazareth Area High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nazareth Area High School places 4th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Nazareth Area High School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 1,607 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 1,528. The ratio was 16.8:1 in 2020-21 and 15.7:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Nazareth Area High School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Nazareth Area SD
- Nazareth Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 775 students
- Nazareth Area Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Lower Nazareth Elementary SchoolElementary · 615 students
- Kenneth N Butz Jr Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- Shafer Elementary SchoolElementary · 559 students
Other schools in Nazareth
- Nazareth Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 775 students
- Nazareth Area Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Lower Nazareth Elementary SchoolElementary · 615 students
- Kenneth N Butz Jr Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- Shafer Elementary SchoolElementary · 559 students
- Plainfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
Nearby schools
- Shafer Elementary School0.2 mi · 559
- Nazareth Area Middle School0.6 mi · 775
- Nazareth Area Intermediate School0.6 mi · 752
- Tracy Elementary School3.1 mi · 410
- Lower Nazareth Elementary School3.2 mi · 615
- Plainfield Elementary School3.4 mi · 434
Frequently asked questions
About Nazareth Area High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Nazareth Area High School?
Nazareth Area High School enrolls approximately 1,607 students in grades 09-12.
Is Nazareth Area High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Nazareth Area High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Nazareth Area High School?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at Nazareth Area High School.
What is the student diversity at Nazareth Area High School?
Student demographics at Nazareth Area High School are roughly 78% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Nazareth Area High School public or private?
Nazareth Area High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Nazareth Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.