Bangor Area HS

Bangor Area HS operates as a reasonably sized four-year high school in Bangor, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Bangor Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 883 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Bangor Area HS is one of 5 schools operated by Bangor Area SD, a district that serves 2,672 students overall.

On demographics, Bangor Area HS reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Bangor Area HS has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Northampton County (around 61%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bangor Area HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.9%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Northampton County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,184 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Northampton County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students), Bangor Area HS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DeFranco El Sch, around 0.3 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bangor Area HS comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 975 students in 2018 compared to 883 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 89% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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