Summary:
The Bethlehem-Center Junior/Senior High School is the sole high school serving the Bethlehem-Center School District in Pennsylvania. The school has faced challenges in recent years, with declining academic performance and a student population that faces significant socioeconomic disadvantages.
Bethlehem-Center Junior/Senior High School has a statewide ranking that has fluctuated between 434 and 523 out of 674-686 Pennsylvania high schools over the past three school years, with a rating of 1-2 out of 5 stars from SchoolDigger. The school's four-year graduation rate for the 2023-2024 school year was 87.9%, slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate for the same year was 1.4%, slightly higher than the state average. Proficiency rates on PSSA and Keystone Exams have generally been lower than the state averages, with the exception of Keystone Literature, where the school's proficiency rate was slightly higher.
The school faces significant socioeconomic challenges, with 96.26% of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population. The school's student-teacher ratio of 14.4 is slightly higher than the state average, and the school district's per-student spending of $10,934 for the 2022-2023 school year is lower than the state average. These factors likely contribute to the school's academic struggles and suggest that addressing the needs of its economically disadvantaged student population will be crucial to improving outcomes.
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