Curwensville Area JSHS

Curwensville Area JSHS is a senior high of cozy scale in Curwensville, Pennsylvania, run under Curwensville Area SD, hosting 429 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Curwensville Area JSHS sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Curwensville Area SD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 962 students. Curwensville Area JSHS is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Curwensville Area JSHS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Curwensville Area JSHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +15.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Clearfield County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,152 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clearfield County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,409 students), Curwensville Area JSHS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Curwensville Area El Sch, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Curwensville Area JSHS comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 492 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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