Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch

As a medium-sized middle school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch works with 702 students from grades 4 through 6, run under Southern Lehigh SD.

Southern Lehigh SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,057 students; Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch lists that White students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school reports 8% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lehigh County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.6%.

In the area at large, Lehigh County reports that median household income runs about $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch is one of 83 public schools in Lehigh County (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students).

Southern Lehigh MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southern Lehigh Intermediate Sch has contracted 7%, going from 751 students in 2018 to 702 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 78% across the same window.

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