Saucon Valley MS

Saucon Valley MS, a reasonably sized junior high in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Saucon Valley SD, educates 599 students, covering grades 5 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in Saucon Valley SD (1,853 students total), Saucon Valley MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Saucon Valley MS logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Saucon Valley MS has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Northampton County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Saucon Valley MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 58.7%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Northampton County shows median household earnings sit near $89,184, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Saucon Valley MS is one of 60 public schools in Northampton County (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students).

The closest other public school is Saucon Valley El Sch, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Saucon Valley MS. On composite proficiency, Saucon Valley MS comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Saucon Valley MS has contracted 14%, going from 693 students in 2018 to 599 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 76% across the same window.

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