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Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS
As a tight-knit senior high in Davidsville, Pennsylvania, Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS enrolls 491 students from grades 6 through 12, run under Conemaugh Township Area SD. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 33% leaner than typical.
Across the 2 schools in Conemaugh Township Area SD (872 students total), Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Somerset County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.4%; this one delivers 61.0%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Somerset County) records that median household earnings sit near $61,446, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS is one of 29 public schools in Somerset County (combined enrollment of about 8,271 students).
Conemaugh Twp Area El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.8%.
Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS operates from an outlying location.
Looking at the recent track record. Conemaugh Twp Area MS/SHS's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 526 (now 491).
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