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Enrollment
360
High
DISTRICT 380 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANTIETAM SD·NCES 420248000820
Antietam High School
201 N 25th St, Reading, PA 19606 · (610) 779-3545 · Berks County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL360 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
357 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 90 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 103 | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 95 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 72 | 20% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Based on grade levels within Antietam SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
46.3%
PA avg 51.1% . +15.8pp since 2023
Math
27.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +18.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.3% | 27.1% |
| 2023-24 | 30.5% | 8.6% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Antietam High School
Antietam High School's state test result (31.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antietam High School this school | 360 | 99.2% | 31.4% |
| Shenandoah Valley JSHS Shenandoah | 546 | 98.7% | 22.9% |
| Catasauqua SHS Northampton | 467 | 98.5% | 37.6% |
| Mahanoy Area JSHS Mahanoy City | 543 | 98.7% | 23.2% |
| Kensington Health Sciences Philadelphia | 457 | 98.2% | 28.4% |
| Phoenix Academy Lancaster | 305 | 89.2% | 3.9% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Antietam High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Berks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #483 of 576 | #17 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #438 of 626 ▲ 124 | #17 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #454 of 626 ▲ 114 | #17 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 360 | #516 of 713 | #18 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #75 of 601 | #2 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.8% | #109 of 604 | #4 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.2% | #137 of 619 | #3 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #26 of 373 | #2 of 12 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
360
-148 (-29%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 360 | 32 | 11.3:1 | 99% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 551 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 99% (548) |
| 2022-23 | 548 | 36 | 15.2:1 | 57% (315) |
| 2020-21 | 508 | 34 | 14.9:1 | 52% (266) |
| 2017-18 | 488 | 35.1 | 13.9:1 | 45% (218) |
| 2015-16 | 417 | 34 | 12.3:1 | 42% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 480 | 46 | 10.4:1 | 33% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 494 | 38 | 13.0:1 | 11% (56) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 32 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Antietam High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (488 to 360); teachers down 9% (35.1 to 32).
About Antietam High School
Antietam High School is a public small high school in Reading, Pennsylvania. It offers grades 9 through 12 and has 360 students enrolled. By comparison, high schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 738 students on average.
Antietam SD has 3 schools; together they serve 1,139 students.
Hispanic students are 54% of those enrolled at Antietam High School. The rest of enrollment is 36% White, 4% Black, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Berks County's population at about 25%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
Antietam High School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1, with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 67% for public schools in Berks County.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 35.1% for Antietam High School. The school posts 31.4%, 3.7 points below the prediction.
In Berks County, home to about 433,015 people, median household income comes to about $79,777, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 95 public schools in the county, enrolling about 62,375, Antietam High School among them.
The closest school to Antietam High School is Kerry C. Hoffman Intermediate School, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Antietam High School. On proficiency, Antietam High School is behind the 32.6% nearby average, ranking 4th of 8.
In the federal locale system, Antietam High School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 508 to 360, a 29% drop. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.9:1 to 11.3:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Berks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
433,015
Census ACS
Median income
$79,777
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
62,375 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Antietam SD
- Kerry C. Hoffman Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 434 students
- Stony Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 345 students
Other schools in Reading
- Reading SHSHigh · 4,879 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,785 students
- Exeter Twp SHSHigh · 1,312 students
- Muhlenberg El CenterElementary · 1,241 students
- Muhlenberg High SchoolHigh · 1,166 students
- Muhlenberg Jr High SchoolMiddle · 1,016 students
Nearby schools
- Kerry C. Hoffman Intermediate School0.2 mi · 434
- Sixteenth & Haak Elementary School1.0 mi · 527
- Exeter Twp SHS1.1 mi · 1,312
- Exeter Twp Junior High School1.4 mi · 618
- Central Middle School1.5 mi · 1,785
- Thirteenth & Green Elementary School1.6 mi · 477
Frequently asked questions
About Antietam High SchoolHow many students attend Antietam High School?
Antietam High School enrolls approximately 360 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Antietam High School serve?
Antietam High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Antietam High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Antietam High School is approximately 11.3:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Antietam High School?
Student demographics at Antietam High School are roughly 36% White, 54% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Antietam High School in?
Antietam High School is part of Antietam SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.