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Alumni: what's one memory from Chestnut Ridge SHS that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
470
High
DISTRICT 399 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHESTNUT RIDGE SD·NCES 420588000732
Chestnut Ridge SHS
2588 Quaker Valley Road, New Paris, PA 15554 · (814) 839-4195 · Bedford County
GRADES 08–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public high schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
274 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 9 | 108 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 11 | 102 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 101 | 21% |
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Chestnut Ridge SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
72.5%
PA avg 51.1% . +6.8pp since 2023
Math
55.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.5% | 55.1% |
| 2023-24 | 65.7% | 44.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Chestnut Ridge SHS
Chestnut Ridge SHS's state test result (61.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chestnut Ridge SHS this school | 470 | 58.3% | 61.8% |
| Mountain View JSHS Kingsley | 410 | 58.8% | 51.2% |
| South Williamsport Area JSHS South Williamsport | 478 | 59.6% | 35.0% |
| Everett Area High School Everett | 393 | 60.3% | 55.2% |
| North East High School North East | 521 | 55.1% | 60.6% |
| Lakeview Middle-HS Stoneboro | 452 | 52.9% | 49.1% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Chestnut Ridge SHS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bedford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #145 of 576 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #155 of 626 ▲ 84 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.5% | #136 of 626 ▲ 112 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 470 | #430 of 713 | #2 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #196 of 601 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.8% | #552 of 604 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.3% | #288 of 619 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #55 of 373 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
470
-45 (-9%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 594
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 470 | 36.8 | 12.8:1 | 58% (274) |
| 2023-24 | 503 | 37.9 | 13.3:1 | 54% (274) |
| 2022-23 | 490 | 37.2 | 13.2:1 | 44% (218) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 37 | 13.9:1 | 36% (185) |
| 2017-18 | 582 | 35.9 | 16.2:1 | 38% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 625 | 36 | 17.4:1 | 48% (298) |
| 2010-11 | 480 | 37 | 13.0:1 | 34% (165) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 34 | 16.2:1 | 29% (157) |
| 1990-91 | 594 | 31 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chestnut Ridge SHS.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (582 to 470); teachers up 2% (35.9 to 36.8).
About Chestnut Ridge SHS
A small high school in New Paris, Pennsylvania, Chestnut Ridge SHS is part of Chestnut Ridge SD. The school offers grades 8 through 12 and enrolls 470 students. Across high schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 738.
Chestnut Ridge SHS is part of Chestnut Ridge SD, where 3 schools serve 1,197 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Chestnut Ridge SHS is White, at 96%. Among Bedford County residents, the White share is about 96%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Chestnut Ridge SHS scores 8%.
There are about 12.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Chestnut Ridge SHS, which has 36.8. The average ratio among high schools in Pennsylvania is similar, at 12.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 58%.
Among Pennsylvania public high schools, Chestnut Ridge SHS outscored 82%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 52.6% at Chestnut Ridge SHS; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 61.8%.
Census data for Bedford County show the median household earns about $59,992 a year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting Chestnut Ridge SHS, Bedford County has 18 public schools.
The closest school to Chestnut Ridge SHS is Chestnut Ridge Central Elementary School, located about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 2. On proficiency, Chestnut Ridge SHS is ahead of the 56.2% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 8.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The school shrank from 515 students in 2020-21 to 470 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.9:1 to 12.8:1.
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Bedford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,513
Census ACS
Median income
$59,992
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
5,951 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chestnut Ridge SD
- Chestnut Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 424 students
- Chestnut Ridge Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
Other schools in New Paris
- Chestnut Ridge Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
Nearby schools
- Chestnut Ridge Central Elementary School0.1 mi · 303
- Chestnut Ridge Middle School0.6 mi · 424
- Bedford Elementary School8.6 mi · 764
- Bedford SHS9.8 mi · 495
- Bedford Middle School9.9 mi · 414
- Northern Bedford Co Elementary School10.9 mi · 414
Frequently asked questions
About Chestnut Ridge SHSHow large is Chestnut Ridge SHS?
Chestnut Ridge SHS enrolls approximately 470 students in grades 08-12.
What age range does Chestnut Ridge SHS serve?
Chestnut Ridge SHS serves students from grade 08 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Chestnut Ridge SHS?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Chestnut Ridge SHS.
How diverse is Chestnut Ridge SHS?
Chestnut Ridge SHS reports a student body of 96% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Chestnut Ridge SHS in?
Chestnut Ridge SHS is part of Chestnut Ridge SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.