Cowanesque Valley JSHS

Cowanesque Valley JSHS operates as a close-knit four-year high school in Westfield, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Northern Tioga SD. Current enrollment sits at 365 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 51% leaner than typical.

Cowanesque Valley JSHS is one of 5 schools operated by Northern Tioga SD, a district that serves 1,989 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Cowanesque Valley JSHS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Cowanesque Valley JSHS logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 104% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tioga County (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cowanesque Valley JSHS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.1%; this one delivers 46.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tioga County) logs that median household income runs about $64,899, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cowanesque Valley JSHS is one of 14 public schools in Tioga County (combined enrollment of about 5,053 students).

Nearest neighbor: Westfield Area El Sch, around 0.5 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cowanesque Valley JSHS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.7%.

Cowanesque Valley JSHS operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cowanesque Valley JSHS has fell 5%, going from 385 students in 2018 to 365 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Cowanesque Valley JSHS community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.