Enrollment
238
Middle
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHERN LEHIGH SD·NCES 421767006829
Northern Lehigh Middle School
600 Diamond St, Slatington, PA 18080 · (610) 767-9812 · Lehigh County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL238 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
230 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 120 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 118 | 50% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Northern Lehigh Middle School→Northern Lehigh SHS
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Northern Lehigh SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
QUIET COMMUNITY
Be the first to start a discussion at Northern Lehigh Middle School.
START A DISCUSSIONTest scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
47.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.8pp since 2023
Math
22.4%
PA avg 43.0% . -5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.9% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 54.7% | 27.8% |
% 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
40.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Northern Lehigh Middle School
Northern Lehigh Middle School's state test result (40.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Lehigh Middle School this school | 238 | 96.6% | 40.8% |
| Octorara Intermediate School Atglen | 279 | 98.9% | 36.8% |
| New Brighton Area Middle School New Brighton | 290 | 97.2% | 33.3% |
| Windber Area Middle School Windber | 300 | 96.3% | 50.4% |
| Panther Valley Intermediate School Lansford | 458 | 98.0% | 27.3% |
| California Area Middle School Coal Center | 158 | 93.0% | 38.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania middle 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 Northern Lehigh Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #332 of 479 | #11 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #397 of 513 ▼ 34 | #12 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #306 of 513 ▼ 21 | #9 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 238 | #466 of 522 | #17 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #108 of 486 | #3 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.5% | #216 of 486 | #12 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.6% | #122 of 510 | #6 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #302 of 332 | #11 of 11 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
238
-10 (-4%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 513
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 238 | 20.4 | 11.6:1 | 97% (230) |
| 2023-24 | 230 | 20.3 | 11.3:1 | 100% (230) |
| 2022-23 | 224 | 21.5 | 10.4:1 | 100% (224) |
| 2020-21 | 248 | 18 | 13.8:1 | 34% (85) |
| 2017-18 | 243 | 20.5 | 11.9:1 | 46% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 251 | 20 | 12.6:1 | 43% (107) |
| 2010-11 | 275 | 28 | 9.8:1 | 34% (94) |
| 2000-01 | 529 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 24% (127) |
| 1990-91 | 513 | 27 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northern Lehigh Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (243 to 238); teachers unchanged (20.5 to 20.4).
About Northern Lehigh Middle School
Northern Lehigh Middle School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle school in Slatington, Pennsylvania. The school enrolls 238 students in grades 7 through 8. Across middle schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 594.
The district, Northern Lehigh SD, has 1,616 students enrolled across 4 schools.
More than half of enrollment at Northern Lehigh Middle School is White: 74%. The remaining shares are 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Lehigh County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school's share is higher. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 42%.
The school had 20.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 11.6:1. The school's 11.6:1 compares with an average of 13.2:1 for middle schools in Pennsylvania. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 97%. That is higher than the 70% average for public schools in Lehigh County.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Northern Lehigh Middle School outscored 55%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Northern Lehigh Middle School is 4.6 points above its prediction. Actual: 40.8%. Predicted: 36.2%.
Looking at the county, Lehigh County, the median household earns about $80,079 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Lehigh County has 83 public schools with about 56,984 students, including Northern Lehigh Middle School.
Northern Lehigh SHS is about 0.1 miles from Northern Lehigh Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 51.9%, higher than Northern Lehigh Middle School's 40.8%.
Locale data from NCES put Northern Lehigh Middle School in a town close to an urbanized area (Town: Fringe).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Northern Lehigh Middle School had a net loss of 10 students, or 4%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.8:1 to 11.6:1 over the same years.
People can post here about open houses, carpools, and field trips and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Northern Lehigh SD
- Northern Lehigh SHSHigh · 502 students
- Slatington Elementary SchoolElementary · 487 students
- Peters Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
Other schools in Slatington
- Northern Lehigh SHSHigh · 502 students
- Slatington Elementary SchoolElementary · 487 students
- Peters Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
Nearby schools
- Northern Lehigh SHS0.1 mi · 502
- Slatington Elementary School0.4 mi · 487
- S S Palmer Elementary School2.9 mi · 399
- Parkside Education Center3.0 mi · 150
- Peters Elementary School3.0 mi · 389
- Palmerton Area Junior High School3.5 mi · 261
Frequently asked questions
About Northern Lehigh Middle SchoolHow many students attend Northern Lehigh Middle School?
Northern Lehigh Middle School enrolls approximately 238 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does Northern Lehigh Middle School serve?
Northern Lehigh Middle School serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Northern Lehigh Middle School?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at Northern Lehigh Middle School.
How diverse is Northern Lehigh Middle School?
Northern Lehigh Middle School reports a student body of 74% White, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Northern Lehigh Middle School public or private?
Northern Lehigh Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Northern Lehigh SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.