Lehighton Area School District
The Lehighton Area School District is just north of the Blue Mountain range extending along the Lehigh River in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
The district is composed of four communities which are served by the Lehighton Area School District over a sixty-seven-square-mile area. East Penn Township is to the south of the town/borough of Lehighton; Mahoning Valley is to the west along route 443 and Franklin Township is located on the east side of the river.
The school district contains one elementary center. The Lehighton Area elementary center includes full-day kindergarten and houses grades one through five.
The single middle school comprises grades six through eight. The high school facility was built in 1993. It currently has 726 students, 56% male and 44% female. Its current graduation rate is 82%.
