Central Columbia SHS

Central Columbia SHS is one of the compact secondary schools in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Central Columbia SD, with 601 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Central Columbia SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,893 students; Central Columbia SHS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Central Columbia SHS logs that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Central Columbia SHS has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Central Columbia SHS higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 29% of students at Central Columbia SHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Columbia County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Central Columbia SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 68.2%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Columbia County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,644, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Columbia County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,501 students), Central Columbia SHS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Central Columbia MS, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Central Columbia SHS comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Columbia SHS has climbed 9%, going from 549 students in 2018 to 601 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.