Burgettstown MS/HS

Burgettstown MS/HS is one of the low-enrollment secondary schools in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, run under Burgettstown Area SD, with 492 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Burgettstown MS/HS sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Burgettstown Area SD (922 students total), Burgettstown MS/HS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Burgettstown MS/HS logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Burgettstown MS/HS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 59.8%; actual is 42.7%, a gap of -17.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $78,958, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students), of which Burgettstown MS/HS is one.

Burgettstown El Ctr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Burgettstown MS/HS at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 70.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 619 students in 2018 compared to 492 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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