Crestwood Secondary Campus

Crestwood Secondary Campus is an expansive high school in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, part of Crestwood SD. The school hosts 1,379 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Crestwood Secondary Campus sits 87% above that benchmark.

Crestwood SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 2,726 students; Crestwood Secondary Campus is among them.

In terms of who attends, Crestwood Secondary Campus lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Luzerne County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Crestwood Secondary Campus has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Crestwood Secondary Campus higher than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Luzerne County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crestwood Secondary Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.1%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of -10.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Luzerne County) records that median household income runs about $63,691, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Crestwood Secondary Campus is one of 65 public schools in Luzerne County (combined enrollment of about 45,209 students).

The closest other public school is Fairview El Sch, roughly 1.6 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Crestwood Secondary Campus comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.