Boiling Springs HS

Set in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, Boiling Springs HS is a medium-sized high school, part of South Middleton SD. It hosts 707 students across grades 9 through 12.

South Middleton SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,136 students; Boiling Springs HS is among them.

On demographics, Boiling Springs HS reports that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Boiling Springs HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.8%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of -10.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, Cumberland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cumberland County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), of which Boiling Springs HS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Yellow Breeches MS, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Boiling Springs HS comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 658 students in 2018 compared to 707 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 90% to 80%.

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