Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS
A public charter school for grades K to 12 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18017
2040 Avenue C, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18017. (610) 866-9660.
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The short answer
Record last released by Office for Civil Rights on Aug 31, 2026.
- 14.8% of students chronically absent, 2022-23 Pennsylvania: 23.3%
- 1,878 students, 2024-25
- 11.9 students per teacher
- 6 counselors, 2023-24, in full-time equivalents
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
How do students fare?
14.8% of students chronically absent in 2022-23
Pennsylvania: 23.3%. Its district: 14.8%.
Missing 10% or more of school days: 265 of the 1,795 enrolled on October 1.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
NCES, school membership, 2022-23. Released Jan 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23. Released Dec 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
- In 2022-23, 95% or more of the 95 students in its four-year cohort graduated with a regular diploma within four years: ED publishes a range, not a figure, to protect students’ privacy.
- In 2021-22, 95% or more of the 90 students in its four-year cohort graduated with a regular diploma within four years: ED publishes a range, not a figure, to protect students’ privacy.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
NCES, school membership, 2022-23. Released Jan 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23. Released Dec 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
| School year | Graduated with a regular diploma within four years |
|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 95% or more |
| 2021-22 | 95% or more |
What kind of school is it, and who does it serve?
- A public charter school for grades K to 12.
- Open in NCES’s 2025-26 directory, which is still preliminary.
- Students were enrolled in 2023-24, as the CRDC records it, in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and a dual enrollment or dual credit program; none in a gifted and talented program.
- In 2024-25, 52% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 972 of the 1,878 enrolled on October 1: 930 for free lunch and 42 for reduced-price.
- It serves every student free meals under the Community Eligibility Provision, which takes no applications, so states count eligibility at such schools in different ways.
- Around the school, a family with children aged 5 to 17 has an income of about 325% of the federal poverty threshold for its size (100% is at the threshold), by NCES’s 2021-22 estimate from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey of 2018-2022; its standard error is 104 points.
- That describes the school’s neighbourhood, which NCES says may differ from the neighbourhoods its students live in.
NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.
NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.
Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection, 2023-24. Released Aug 31, 2026. Updated every two years.
NCES, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22. Released Oct 15, 2024. Updated yearly.
What did the school report?
What the school reported to the Office for Civil Rights for 2023-24. These are the school’s own counts, not findings.
- Offenses reported for 2023-24: 20 physical attacks or fights without a weapon; none of the other kinds the CRDC counts.
- No shooting and no homicide reported for 2023-24.
- Allegations of harassment or bullying for 2023-24: 2 on the basis of sex and 2 on disability; none on race, color or national origin, sexual orientation or religion.
- No restraint or seclusion reported for 2023-24.
- Students disciplined for 2023-24: 149 suspended out of school at least once, 35 suspended in school, 0 expelled, 13 referred to law enforcement, 0 arrested in a school-related arrest.
- No corporal punishment reported for 2023-24.
Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection, 2023-24. Released Aug 31, 2026. Updated every two years.
Who teaches and supports students?
11.9 students per teacher, 2024-25
The middle of the 12 nearest public high schools had 12.9.
NCES counts teachers in full-time equivalents.
NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| Counselors, 2023-24 | 6 |
| Nurses, 2023-24 | 6 |
| Psychologists, 2023-24 | 0 |
| Social workers, 2023-24 | 2 |
| Sworn law enforcement officers, 2023-24 | 0 |
| Security guards, 2023-24 | 0 |
| Teachers in their first or second year, 2023-24 | 13% |
| Teachers absent more than 10 school days, 2023-24 | 8% |
| Teachers who met all state licensing or certification requirements, 2023-24 | 81% |
| Teachers, 2024-25 | 157.5 |
| Students per teacher, 2024-25 | 11.9 |
How does it compare nearby?
- Among the 12 nearest public schools in Pennsylvania, within 45.8 miles, the middle value for chronic absence in 2022-23 was 21.0%; this one had 14.8%.
- Students per teacher in 2024-25, by NCES’s counts: 11.9 here; the middle value among them was 12.9.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
| School | Miles away | Chronically absent, 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS This school | 14.8% | |
| Lincoln Leadership Academy CS | 2.5 | 31.8% |
| Executive Education Academy CS | 3.0 | 24.4% |
| Roberto Clemente CS | 4.6 | 17.2% |
| Renaissance Academy Charter School | 36.1 | 21.1% |
| Gillingham Charter School | 40.9 | 37.2% |
| Mathematics Science & Technology Community CS | 43.4 | 13.0% |
| Philadelphia Academy CS | 43.9 | 18.2% |
| MaST Community CS III | 44.1 | 22.0% |
| Tacony Academy CS | 44.9 | 32.2% |
| MaST Community CS II | 45.4 | 19.3% |
| Collegium CS | 45.8 | 20.8% |
Who runs it?
- Run by Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS, its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
- Its charter authorizer, as NCES lists it: BETHLEHEM AREA SD.
- District spending, fiscal year 2024: the Census Bureau’s survey of school system finances gives no spending per student for the agency that runs it.
NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.
U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables. Released May 7, 2026. Updated yearly.
| Organisation | Role | Share | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Valley Academy Regional CS | Runs it, as its local education agency | ||
| BETHLEHEM AREA SD | Authorized its charter |
Has anything been proven against it?
- Federal school data don’t record findings against a school: the counts here are what the school reported, and the Office for Civil Rights’ own investigations aren’t included.
What the record doesn’t say
- Federal school data arrive one to three years after the school year they describe, so each figure here carries its own year.
- The Civil Rights Data Collection is gathered every two years and published about two years later: its 2023-24 figures came out in August 2026.
- To protect students’ privacy, the Office for Civil Rights adds or takes away one at random from counts of students, and ED does the same for chronic absence counts of four or fewer, so a small count may be one off.
- Where the public file shows code −10, “Suppressed in compliance with Executive Order” 14168, figures are withheld: students reported as nonbinary, and harassment allegations based on gender identity, are left out of the counts here.
- The 2021-22 collection didn’t include teacher experience, so there’s no earlier figure to compare it with.
- ED publishes each school’s test results in reading and language arts and in mathematics, but they aren’t loaded here yet.
- ED publishes most schools’ results as ranges, wider for smaller schools, to protect students’ privacy: each is shown as ED publishes it, never as a single figure.
- The CRDC’s 2023-24 public file records Advanced Placement and the International Baccalaureate only where students were enrolled in them, and marks other high schools not applicable: one this page doesn’t name may still be offered.
Sources
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National Center for Education Statistics, School directory, 2025-26 (preliminary).
Released Jul 1, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 2024-25.
Released Dec 29, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, School locations, 2024-25.
Released Dec 19, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22 (American Community Survey, 2018-2022).
Released Oct 15, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables.
Released May 7, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. Public domain (a U.S. government work), cited to the Census Bureau as it asks.
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National Center for Education Statistics, School membership, 2022-23 (v.1a).
Released Jan 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, Chronic absenteeism, 2022-23.
Released Nov 7, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).
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U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection, 2023-24.
Released Aug 31, 2026 and checked Oct 17, 2026. Updated every two years. CC BY (as data.ed.gov lists the CRDC).
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U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23.
Released Dec 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).
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