Antietam HS

Antietam HS is one of the intimate four-year high schools in Reading, Pennsylvania, operated by Antietam SD, with 360 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 51% leaner than typical.

Antietam SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,139 students. Antietam HS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Antietam HS shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 36% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Antietam HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Berks County shows median household income runs about $79,777, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Antietam HS is one of 95 public schools in Berks County (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students).

Kerry C. Hoffman Intermediate Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Antietam HS at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Antietam HS's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 488 (now 360). Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Antietam HS community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.