Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS
Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS is a secondary school of tiny scale in Claysburg, Pennsylvania, run under Claysburg-Kimmel SD, educateing 266 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 64% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.
Claysburg-Kimmel SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 714 students; Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS is among them.
Demographically, Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS shows that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest consists of 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Blair County as a whole.
On the resource side, Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Blair County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +12.0 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Blair County indicate median household income runs about $62,382, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS is one of 33 public schools in Blair County (combined enrollment of about 15,692 students).
Claysburg-Kimmel Jr HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 48.0%.
Claysburg-Kimmel Sr HS operates from a town-center location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 33%: 398 students in 2018 compared to 266 in 2025.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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