Blue Mountain HS

Blue Mountain HS, a mid-sized secondary school in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, part of Blue Mountain SD, instructs 791 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Blue Mountain SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,412 students; Blue Mountain HS is among them.

On demographics, Blue Mountain HS records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Blue Mountain HS tighter than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Schuylkill County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Blue Mountain HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.3%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Schuylkill County put median household earnings sit near $68,313, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Schuylkill County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,259 students), of which Blue Mountain HS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Schuylkill Haven El Ctr, around 1.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Blue Mountain HS comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Blue Mountain HS's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 900 (now 791). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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