Daniel Boone Area HS

Daniel Boone Area HS, a reasonably sized high school in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, run under Daniel Boone Area SD, works with 940 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Daniel Boone Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,864 students; Daniel Boone Area HS is among them.

Demographically, Daniel Boone Area HS logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Berks County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, Daniel Boone Area HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Berks County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Daniel Boone Area HS is one.

The closest other public school is Daniel Boone Area Primary Ctr, roughly 1.8 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Daniel Boone Area HS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.6%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 1,143 students in 2018 compared to 940 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 89% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.