Blackhawk HS

As a mid-sized high school in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Blackhawk HS works with 763 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Blackhawk SD.

Within Blackhawk SD, which oversees 4 schools and 2,310 students, Blackhawk HS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Blackhawk HS lists that nearly all students (93%) are White. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, Blackhawk HS has 50 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 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Beaver County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Blackhawk HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.2%, the actual is 60.1%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Beaver County) logs that median household income runs about $71,089, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Blackhawk HS is one of 52 public schools in Beaver County (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students).

Nearest neighbor: Blackhawk Intermediate Sch, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blackhawk HS. On composite proficiency, Blackhawk HS comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 757 students in 2018 compared to 763 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.