Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS
Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS is a tiny senior high in Foxburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Allegheny-Clarion Valley SD. The school enrolls 269 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 64% leaner than typical.
Allegheny-Clarion Valley SD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 573 students. Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Clarion County's rate of about 72%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of -2.7 points.
Across the wider county, Clarion County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,649, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clarion County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,023 students), Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS. On composite proficiency, Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 322 (now 269). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.
On allk12, the feed for Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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