Canton JSHS

As a low-enrollment high school in Canton, Pennsylvania, Canton JSHS enrolls 372 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within Canton Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 50% below the state mean of about 738.

Canton Area SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 803 students; Canton JSHS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Canton JSHS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder comes out to 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Canton JSHS records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bradford County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Canton JSHS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.0%.

Around the school, census data for Bradford County shows median household earnings sit near $63,675, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Bradford County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,392 students), Canton JSHS is one campus in the mix.

Canton Area El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Canton JSHS comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Canton JSHS's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 372). Over the same period, the White share declined from 97% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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