Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School

Set in Hagerstown, Indiana, Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School is a small senior high, run under Nettle Creek School Corporation. It hosts 551 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 32% smaller than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 816 students.

Across the 2 schools in Nettle Creek School Corporation (1,172 students total), Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest reads as 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wayne County (around 55%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $55,692 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School is one of 23 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 9,696 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hagerstown Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 30.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hagerstown Jr-Sr High School has grew 10%, going from 502 students in 2018 to 551 in 2025.

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