Dallas SHS

As a reasonably sized 9-12 campus in Dallas, Pennsylvania, Dallas SHS instructs 745 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Dallas SD.

Dallas SHS is one of 4 schools operated by Dallas SD, a district that instructs 2,407 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Dallas SHS logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Luzerne County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Luzerne County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dallas SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Luzerne County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,691 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Luzerne County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,209 students), of which Dallas SHS is one.

The closest other public school is Dallas MS, roughly 0.2 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dallas SHS at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 49.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Dallas SHS's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 868 (now 745). Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Dallas SHS typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.