Connellsville Area SHS

As a mid-sized high school in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Connellsville Area SHS enrolls 667 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Connellsville Area SD.

Within Connellsville Area SD, which oversees 6 schools and 3,328 students, Connellsville Area SHS is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Connellsville Area SHS shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Fayette County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 167% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Fayette County's rate of about 92%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fayette County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $58,236 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Fayette County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students), of which Connellsville Area SHS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Connellsville Area SHS.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 47%: 1,251 students in 2018 compared to 667 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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