Bucktail Area MS

Bucktail Area MS is one of the rural-scale junior highs in Renovo, Pennsylvania, operated by Keystone Central SD, with 117 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 80% leaner than typical.

Across the 9 schools in Keystone Central SD (3,324 students total), Bucktail Area MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Bucktail Area MS shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bucktail Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the broader community, Clinton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,816 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Clinton County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,879 students), Bucktail Area MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bucktail HS, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bucktail Area MS comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Bucktail Area MS's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 110 (now 117). White enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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