Whitehall-Coplay MS

Whitehall-Coplay MS is a sprawling 6-8 campus in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, operated by Whitehall-Coplay SD. The school hosts 975 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Whitehall-Coplay MS sits 64% bigger than that benchmark.

Whitehall-Coplay MS is one of 5 schools operated by Whitehall-Coplay SD, a district that instructs 4,170 students overall.

On demographics, Whitehall-Coplay MS lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 39% White, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Lehigh County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Whitehall-Coplay MS logs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 102% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Lehigh County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Whitehall-Coplay MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 41.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lehigh County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,079 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Lehigh County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), Whitehall-Coplay MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Zephyr El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Whitehall-Coplay MS. On composite proficiency, Whitehall-Coplay MS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Whitehall-Coplay MS operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Whitehall-Coplay MS's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,065 (now 975). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 54% to 39%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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