Bethlehem-Center JSHS

As a modestly sized secondary school in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem-Center JSHS hosts 448 students from grades 7 through 12, operated by Bethlehem-Center SD. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 738.

Bethlehem-Center SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 931 students; Bethlehem-Center JSHS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bethlehem-Center JSHS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Bethlehem-Center JSHS shows 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Bethlehem-Center JSHS tighter than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Washington County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bethlehem-Center JSHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Washington County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,958 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students), Bethlehem-Center JSHS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bethlehem-Center El Sch, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bethlehem-Center JSHS at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.2%.

Bethlehem-Center JSHS operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 14%: 393 students in 2018 compared to 448 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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