Enrollment
238
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHLEHEM AREA SD·NCES 420357006633
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
404 E North St, Bethlehem, PA 18018 · (610) 691-1776 · Northampton County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL238 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
205 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 37 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
63%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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
32.0%
PA avg 51.1% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
26.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 26.2% |
| 2023-24 | 26.5% | 19.6% |
% 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
29.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (29.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary School this school | 238 | 86.1% | 29.7% |
| William Penn Elementary School Bethlehem | 242 | 78.9% | 34.8% |
| Ross Elementary School Lancaster | 281 | 94.0% | 40.2% |
| Charles Sumner #18 Scranton | 250 | 98.8% | 37.8% |
| Burrowes Elementary School Lancaster | 308 | 85.4% | 36.0% |
| Freemansburg Elementary School Freemansburg | 328 | 91.2% | 21.5% |
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 Thomas Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #1,177 of 1,396 | #27 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #1,210 of 1,511 ▲ 57 | #26 of 34 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #1,166 of 1,511 ▲ 159 | #25 of 34 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 238 | #1,437 of 1,638 | #33 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #221 of 1,528 | #5 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.1% | #254 of 1,531 | #9 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.1% | #679 of 1,600 | #12 of 35 |
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
238
+23 (+11%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 330
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 238 | 21.4 | 11.1:1 | 86% (205) |
| 2023-24 | 246 | 21.1 | 11.7:1 | 83% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 224 | 20.5 | 10.9:1 | 78% (174) |
| 2020-21 | 215 | 18 | 11.9:1 | 71% (152) |
| 2017-18 | 238 | 17.8 | 13.4:1 | 74% (176) |
| 2015-16 | 226 | 18 | 12.6:1 | 74% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 273 | 18 | 15.2:1 | 63% (172) |
| 2000-01 | 338 | 18 | 18.8:1 | 43% (147) |
| 1990-91 | 330 | 17 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (238 to 238); teachers up 20% (17.8 to 21.4).
About Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is an elementary school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, reachable at (610) 691-1776. Its enrollment is 238 students, spread over kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 443.
Bethlehem Area SD is responsible for 22 schools, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School included, with 12,717 students in all.
Federal enrollment data show Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is 52% Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 29% White, 14% Black, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 36 points above the 16% share among Northampton County residents. A diversity index of 63% means there is a 63% chance two randomly chosen students at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School are from different groups.
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School has 21.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 11.1:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.1:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 86%. For comparison, public schools in Northampton County average 61%.
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 16% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
The model predicts 40.7% for a school in Pennsylvania with Thomas Jefferson Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School posts 29.7%.
Looking at the county, Northampton County, the median household earns about $89,184 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Northampton County has 60 public schools with about 38,316 students, including Thomas Jefferson Elementary School.
Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS sits about 0.3 miles from Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is 5th on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is City: Small.
From 215 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 238 by 2024-25.
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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
- Spring Garden Elementary SchoolElementary · 532 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 Thomas Jefferson Elementary schools
27 other US public schools in 15 states are named Thomas Jefferson Elementary. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is the 26th largest of the 28.
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryGlendale, CA · 815 students
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryBurbank, CA · 758 students
- Thomas Jefferson ElementaryLouisa, VA · 672 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolJoliet, IL · 646 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 574 students
Nearby schools
- Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS0.3 mi · 457
- Liberty High School0.5 mi · 2,541
- Northeast Middle School0.6 mi · 715
- William Penn Elementary School0.8 mi · 242
- Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts0.8 mi · 550
- Donegan Elementary School0.9 mi · 467
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolHow large is Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 238 students in grades KG-05.
Is Thomas Jefferson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is approximately 11.1:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
At Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, the student body is approximately 29% White, 52% Hispanic, 14% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Thomas Jefferson Elementary School?
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is overseen by Bethlehem Area SD in Northampton County.
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