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What's the most underrated thing about Spring Garden El Sch that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
532
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHLEHEM AREA SD·NCES 420357003452
Spring Garden Elementary School
901 North Blvd, Bethlehem, PA 18017 · (610) 868-6071 · Northampton County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL532 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
254 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
49.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.9pp since 2023
Math
61.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +11.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 61.9% |
| 2023-24 | 50.9% | 50.0% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Spring Garden Elementary School
Spring Garden Elementary School's state test result (54.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Garden Elementary School this school | 532 | 47.7% | 54.8% |
| Smoketown Elementary School Lancaster | 470 | 49.6% | 48.6% |
| Shiloh Hills Elementary School Sinking Spring | 572 | 46.7% | 61.6% |
| South Lebanon Elementary School Lebanon | 554 | 44.9% | 61.4% |
| Cornwall Terrace Elementary School Sinking Spring | 553 | 51.7% | 53.8% |
| Salisbury Elementary School Allentown | 461 | 52.7% | 59.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Spring Garden Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #737 of 1,396 | #21 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #481 of 1,511 ▲ 268 | #13 of 34 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #766 of 1,511 ▲ 133 | #20 of 34 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 532 | #436 of 1,638 | #10 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #765 of 1,528 | #22 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.2% | #318 of 1,531 | #13 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.7% | #1,036 of 1,600 | #24 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.6% | #424 of 450 | #8 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
532
+51 (+11%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 439
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 532 | 40.8 | 13.0:1 | 48% (254) |
| 2023-24 | 510 | 40.8 | 12.5:1 | 50% (254) |
| 2022-23 | 508 | 39.5 | 12.9:1 | 46% (235) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | 37 | 13.0:1 | 43% (209) |
| 2017-18 | 529 | 37.5 | 14.1:1 | 42% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 521 | 37 | 14.1:1 | 40% (208) |
| 2010-11 | 525 | 34 | 15.4:1 | 29% (150) |
| 2000-01 | 572 | 38 | 15.1:1 | 14% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 439 | 31 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spring Garden Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (529 to 532); teachers up 9% (37.5 to 40.8).
About Spring Garden Elementary School
Spring Garden Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It reported 532 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Spring Garden Elementary School is part of a district of 22 schools: Bethlehem Area SD, with 12,717 students.
At Spring Garden Elementary School, 53% of students are White. Other students are 33% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 3% Asian. That is lower than the 74% White share among all Northampton County residents. The diversity index for Spring Garden Elementary School is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Spring Garden Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1, with 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The school has 48% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Northampton County average 61%.
Spring Garden Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 54.8%, compared with a predicted 57.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Northampton County, median household income comes to about $89,184, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The county's public schools total 60, with about 38,316 students.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, Lincoln Elementary School, is the closest to Spring Garden Elementary School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Spring Garden Elementary School. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Spring Garden Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Spring Garden Elementary School is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 481 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 532 by 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Spring Garden Elementary School can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Northampton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
318,580
Census ACS
Median income
$89,184
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
38,316 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bethlehem Area SD
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 2,541 students
- Freedom High SchoolHigh · 1,792 students
- East Hills Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Nitschmann Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Northeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 715 students
- Fountain Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
Other schools in Bethlehem
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 2,541 students
- Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CSCombined · 1,878 students
- Freedom High SchoolHigh · 1,792 students
- East Hills Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Nitschmann Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Northeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 715 students
Other Spring Garden Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Spring Garden Elementary. Spring Garden Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Spring Garden Elementary SchoolBEDFORD, TX · 599 students
- Spring Garden ElementaryHampstead, MD · 439 students
- Spring Garden Elementary SchoolMount Vernon, IL · 124 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.8 mi · 355
- Governor Wolf Elementary School0.9 mi · 432
- Northeast Middle School1.2 mi · 715
- Marvine Elementary School1.2 mi · 265
- Liberty High School1.4 mi · 2,541
- East Hills Middle School1.4 mi · 966
Frequently asked questions
About Spring Garden Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Spring Garden Elementary School?
Spring Garden Elementary School enrolls approximately 532 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Spring Garden Elementary School serve?
Spring Garden Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Spring Garden Elementary School?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at Spring Garden Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Spring Garden Elementary School?
Student demographics at Spring Garden Elementary School are roughly 53% White, 33% Hispanic, 11% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Spring Garden Elementary School?
Spring Garden Elementary School is overseen by Bethlehem Area SD in Northampton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.