Bethlehem Area School District is a large public school district serving the city of Bethlehem and it surrounding boroughs of Fountain Hill and Freemansburg, and Bethlehem and Hanover townships across both Lehigh and Northampton Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

[3] According to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 49.9% of the district's pupils lived at 185% or below the federal poverty level[4] as shown by their eligibility for the federal free or reduced price school meal programs in 2012.

[5] In 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, reported that 285 students in the Bethlehem Area School District were homeless.

[6] The Colonial Intermediate Units IU20 provides the district with a wide variety of services like: specialized education for disabled students; state mandated training on recognizing and reporting child abuse; speech and visual disability services; criminal background check processing for prospective employees and professional development for staff and faculty.

Bethlehem high schools also have an ice hockey team, which competes as one of t eleven Lehigh Valley-area high school teams in the Lehigh Valley Scholastic Ice Hockey League.