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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Lehighton Area Elementary Center, Lehighton, PA

Lehighton Area Elementary Center is a public elementary school in Lehighton, part of Lehighton Area SD. It enrolled 1,005 students in 2024-25, with 14.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
1,005
Teachers (FTE)
70.0
Students per teacher
14.4
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 3.7 higher than the district figure of 10.7. The Pennsylvania average across schools is 13.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.4
District10.7
Pennsylvania13.5
United States15.3

School details

Address
3 Indian Ln, Lehighton, PA 18235
Phone
(610)377-7880
District
Lehighton Area SD
County
Carbon County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Town: Fringe
NCES school ID
421350007657
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
541
Reduced-price lunch
24
Free or reduced-price lunch
56556.2% 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

Elementary schools elsewhere in Lehighton

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.