Northern Lehigh SHS

Northern Lehigh SHS is a tight-knit secondary school in Slatington, Pennsylvania, overseen by Northern Lehigh SD. The school enrolls 502 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Northern Lehigh SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,616 students; Northern Lehigh SHS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Northern Lehigh SHS logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 19% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Northern Lehigh SHS has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Northern Lehigh SHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Lehigh County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Northern Lehigh SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of +10.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lehigh County put 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. In all, Lehigh County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), of which Northern Lehigh SHS is one.

Northern Lehigh MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northern Lehigh SHS comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northern Lehigh SHS has stayed largely flat, going from 512 students in 2018 to 502 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 85% to 74%.

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