Bald Eagle Area MS/SHS

As a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in Wingate, Pennsylvania, Bald Eagle Area MS/SHS enrolls 832 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Bald Eagle Area SD.

Bald Eagle Area SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,482 students. Bald Eagle Area MS/SHS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bald Eagle Area MS/SHS shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, Centre County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Centre County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Bald Eagle Area MS/SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -9.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Centre County indicate median household income runs about $74,291, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Centre County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,674 students), of which Bald Eagle Area MS/SHS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wingate El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bald Eagle Area MS/SHS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 931 students in 2018 compared to 832 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.