Exeter Twp JHS

Exeter Twp JHS is one of the medium-sized 6-8 campuss in Reading, Pennsylvania, run under Exeter Township SD, with 618 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Within Exeter Township SD, which oversees 6 schools and 3,837 students, Exeter Twp JHS is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Exeter Twp JHS reports that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest consists of 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Berks County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at Exeter Twp JHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Exeter Twp JHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.1%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of -11.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Berks County) logs that 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. Exeter Twp JHS is one of 95 public schools in Berks County (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students).

The closest other public school is Exeter Twp SHS, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Exeter Twp JHS. On composite proficiency, Exeter Twp JHS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

Exeter Twp JHS operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 633 students in 2018 compared to 618 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 79% to 69% over that span.

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