Editing Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (section)

=== Primary and secondary education ===
{{Further|Bethlehem Area School District}}
[[File:Liberty High School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|[[Liberty High School (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)|Liberty High School]], one of two large public high schools in the [[Bethlehem Area School District]] in 2020]]
Bethlehem public schools are managed by the [[Bethlehem Area School District]], which covers a {{convert|40|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} area that includes the city, the boroughs of [[Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania|Fountain Hill]] and [[Freemansburg, Pennsylvania|Freemansburg]] and two townships, [[Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania|Bethlehem Township]], and [[Hanover Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania|Hanover Township]].<ref name="Bethlehem">{{cite web | url = http://bethlehempa.org/citylife/education/ | title = Citylife: Education | publisher = City of Bethlehem website | access-date = August 29, 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091024041655/http://www.bethlehempa.org/citylife/education/ | archive-date = October 24, 2009 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> The district operates two high schools for grades 9–12, [[Liberty High School (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)|Liberty High School]] near center city, and [[Freedom High School (Pennsylvania)|Freedom High School]] in neighboring Bethlehem Township.<ref name="tennessean.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2015/08/09/rock-remembers-nashville-past/31370895/ |title='The Rock' remembers Nashville past |website=The Tennessean |access-date=April 19, 2019 |archive-date=September 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930111917/https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2015/08/09/rock-remembers-nashville-past/31370895/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The district also has four public middle schools for grades 6–8: Broughal Middle School, East Hills Middle School, Nitschmann Middle School, and Northeast Middle School. In addition, BASD maintains 16 public elementary schools for grades K-5: Asa Packer Elementary School, Calypso Elementary School,  Clearview Elementary School, Donegan Elementary School, Farmersville Elementary School, Fountain Hill Elementary School, Freemansburg Elementary School, Governor Wolf Elementary School, Hanover Elementary School, James Buchanan Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, Marvine Elementary School, Miller Heights Elementary School, Spring Garden Elementary School, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, and William Penn Elementary School. [[Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts]]  is also operated by the district, though it accepts students in grades 9–12 from throughout Northampton and surrounding counties.

Bethlehem has two parochial high schools available to students: [[Bethlehem Catholic High School]], which serves grades 9–12, and [[Moravian Academy]], which serves all primary and secondary school grades. [[Notre Dame High School (Easton, Pennsylvania)|Notre Dame High School]], located in [[Easton, Pennsylvania|Easton]], serves grades 9 through 12.

Each of Bethlehem's three large high schools, Bethlehem Catholic, Freedom, and Liberty, compete athletically in Pennsylvania's [[Eastern Pennsylvania Conference]] and play their home football games at [[Bethlehem Area School District Stadium]], a 14,000-capacity stadium that is one of the largest high school football stadiums in the state and has been labeled "a local football mecca."<ref>[https://www.mcall.com/sports/mc-groller-basdstadium-column-1103-20141104-column.html "Busy BASD stadium has become a local football mecca,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220917021358/https://www.mcall.com/sports/mc-groller-basdstadium-column-1103-20141104-column.html |date=September 17, 2022 }} ''The Morning Call'', November 4, 2014</ref>