Boyertown Area SHS

Boyertown Area SHS, a sprawling secondary school in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, part of Boyertown Area SD, enrolls 2,052 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Boyertown Area SHS sits 178% above that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Boyertown Area SD (6,300 students total), Boyertown Area SHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Boyertown Area SHS shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Berks County's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, Boyertown Area SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 62.6%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Berks County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Boyertown Area SHS is one.

Boyertown El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Boyertown Area SHS. On composite proficiency, Boyertown Area SHS comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

Boyertown Area SHS operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 2,162 students in 2018 compared to 2,052 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 92% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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