Freeport Area SHS

Freeport Area SHS, a tight-knit 9-12 campus in Freeport, Pennsylvania, run under Freeport Area SD, enrolls 512 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 31% smaller than the state mean of about 738.

Freeport Area SHS is one of 4 schools operated by Freeport Area SD, a district that hosts 1,725 students overall.

Demographically, Freeport Area SHS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest comes out to 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Butler County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Butler County's rate of about 37%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Freeport Area SHS sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 65.7%; actual is 84.2%, +18.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, Butler County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,843 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Butler County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students), Freeport Area SHS is one campus in the mix.

Freeport Area MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Freeport Area SHS comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Freeport Area SHS has fell 15%, going from 605 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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