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Black student results in Bethlehem Area School District

Across 17 schools in Bethlehem Area School District, 24.2% of Black students meet proficient. That is 1.8 points below the Pennsylvania average for Black students.

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32.2%
All students
24.2%
Black
25.1%
Hispanic
46.1%
White
64.5%
Asian

Average across the 17 schools in Bethlehem Area School District with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 16 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Farmersville El Sch reports 64.6% of Black students meeting the standard. Fountain Hill El Sch, in the same district, reports 2.9%. That is a 61.7-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Bethlehem Area School District

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting proficient. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Farmersville El Sch 59.4% 64.6% 42.6% 63.8% 60%
Miller Heights El Sch 56.2% 52.9% 38.5% 66.2%
Marvine El Sch 25.5% 31.2% 22.9%
Spring Garden El Sch 55.4% 28.6% 44.2% 68.4%
William Penn El Sch 31% 28.6% 26% 37.9%
Nitschmann Ms 39.4% 27.9% 24.5% 48.6% 80.6%
James Buchanan El Sch 31% 25% 31.1% 32.9%
Lincoln El Sch 23.9% 25% 15% 55.2%
Governor Wolf El Sch 38.5% 23.8% 26% 52.7%
East Hills Ms 34.8% 21.5% 23.6% 42.7% 53%
Freemansburg El Sch 20.8% 21.4% 15.1% 35.4%
Thomas Jefferson El Sch 29.1% 17.6% 30.6% 33.9%
Northeast Ms 21.9% 14.8% 12.7% 39.9%
Clearview El Sch 36.9% 13.9% 30.9% 47.8%
Broughal Ms 12.3% 5.8% 10.5% 29.6%
Donegan El Sch 19.4% 5.6% 21.3%
Fountain Hill El Sch 12.7% 2.9% 10.9% 36.5%

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How to read this. Pennsylvania suppresses results for groups with too few students tested. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 1,156 of Pennsylvania's schools have reportable data. Coverage is grades 3–8; high schools are not included. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Pennsylvania figures should not be compared against another state's.

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