Abington SHS

Abington SHS is one of the heavily attended secondary schools in Abington, Pennsylvania, overseen by Abington SD, with 2,692 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 265% bigger than typical.

Abington SD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 8,400 students; Abington SHS is among them.

Demographically, Abington SHS reports that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment; the rest looks like 20% Black, 11% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 157 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at Abington SHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Abington SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.6%, the actual is 60.1%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the broader community, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), Abington SHS is one campus in the mix.

Abington MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Abington SHS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.4%.

Abington SHS operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 51%: 1,781 students in 2018 compared to 2,692 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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