Carbondale Area JSHS

Carbondale Area JSHS is a four-year high school of moderately sized scale in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, operated by Carbondale Area SD, caters to 736 students in grades 7 through 12.

Carbondale Area SD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,491 students. Carbondale Area JSHS is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Carbondale Area JSHS logs that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Carbondale Area JSHS tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at Carbondale Area JSHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Carbondale Area JSHS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.4%; actual is 29.8%, a gap of -19.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lackawanna County put median household earnings sit near $66,223, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Lackawanna County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), of which Carbondale Area JSHS is one.

Carbondale El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Carbondale Area JSHS. On composite proficiency, Carbondale Area JSHS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Carbondale Area JSHS's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 682 (now 736). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 85% to 71%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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