Fannett-Metal MS

Fannett-Metal MS is a 6-8 campus of one-room-style scale in Willow Hill, Pennsylvania, run under Fannett-Metal SD, works with 70 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 88% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Within Fannett-Metal SD, which oversees 3 schools and 369 students, Fannett-Metal MS is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Fannett-Metal MS records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 109% of students at Fannett-Metal MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Franklin County (around 69%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Across the wider county, census data for Franklin County shows median household income runs about $77,003, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fannett-Metal MS is one of 41 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students).

Fannett-Metal El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 35%: 108 students in 2018 compared to 70 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 2% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 6.3:1 today.

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