Albert Gallatin Area SHS

Albert Gallatin Area SHS operates as a medium-sized high school in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, overseen by Albert Gallatin Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 920 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 25% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Albert Gallatin Area SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,894 students; Albert Gallatin Area SHS is among them.

Demographically, Albert Gallatin Area SHS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder breaks down as 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Fayette County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Albert Gallatin Area SHS has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 105% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Fayette County's rate of about 92%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Albert Gallatin Area SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 43.2%, a residual of +10.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Fayette County shows median household earnings sit near $58,236, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fayette County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students), of which Albert Gallatin Area SHS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Smithfield El Sch, around 2.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Albert Gallatin Area SHS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Albert Gallatin Area SHS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Albert Gallatin Area SHS's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 1,073 (now 920). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Albert Gallatin Area SHS community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.