Northwestern Lehigh El Sch

Located at 6493 Route 309, in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania, Northwestern Lehigh El Sch is a reasonably sized K-5 school that caters to 396 students (grades K through 5), operated by Northwestern Lehigh SD.

Northwestern Lehigh SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,919 students. Northwestern Lehigh El Sch is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northwestern Lehigh El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Lehigh County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northwestern Lehigh El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.4%; this one delivers 53.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lehigh County) shows that 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 Northwestern Lehigh El Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Northwestern Lehigh HS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Northwestern Lehigh El Sch comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.7%.

Northwestern Lehigh El Sch operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 426 students in 2018 compared to 396 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.