Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
James Buchanan El Sch, Bethlehem, PA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 253
- Teachers (FTE)
- 20.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.7
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.9. The Pennsylvania average across schools is 13.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1621 Catasauqua Road, Bethlehem, PA 18017
- Phone
- (610)865-1766
- District
- Bethlehem Area SD
- County
- Northampton County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 420357003442
School meals
- Free lunch
- 148
- Reduced-price lunch
- 22
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 17067.2% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Bethlehem Area SD
- Spring Garden El Sch 532 students
- Fountain Hill El Sch 530 students
- Donegan El Sch 467 students
- Governor Wolf El Sch 432 students
- Clearview El Sch 384 students
- Farmersville El Sch 357 students
- Lincoln El Sch 355 students
- Freemansburg El Sch 328 students
- Miller Heights El Sch 328 students
- Asa Packer El Sch 314 students
- Marvine El Sch 265 students
- William Penn El Sch 242 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Bethlehem
- Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS Lehigh Valley Dual Language CS
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.