Abington Heights MS

Located at 1555 Newton Ransom Blvd, in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, Abington Heights MS is a sizable junior high that instructs 1,073 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by Abington Heights SD. Enrollment runs roughly 81% bigger than the state mean of about 594.

Abington Heights SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,391 students; Abington Heights MS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Abington Heights MS lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Lackawanna County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Abington Heights MS has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 1% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Lackawanna County (around 72%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Abington Heights MS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 77.1%; this one comes in at 58.4%, -18.6 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, Lackawanna County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,223, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Abington Heights MS is one of 47 public schools in Lackawanna County (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students).

Newton-Ransom El School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Abington Heights MS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 62.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Abington Heights MS's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,099 (now 1,073).

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.