Northwestern Lehigh MS

Northwestern Lehigh MS, a small middle school in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Northwestern Lehigh SD, teaches 440 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Within Northwestern Lehigh SD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,919 students, Northwestern Lehigh MS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Northwestern Lehigh MS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Northwestern Lehigh MS has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lehigh County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northwestern Lehigh MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.0%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of -11.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Lehigh County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,079 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Northwestern Lehigh MS is one of 83 public schools in Lehigh County (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students).

The closest other public school is Northwestern Lehigh El Sch, roughly 0.3 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northwestern Lehigh MS comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northwestern Lehigh MS has shrank 18%, going from 535 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025.

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