Gettysburg Area HS

Gettysburg Area HS operates as a mid-tier secondary school in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, part of Gettysburg Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 1,069 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 45% bigger than the state mean of about 738.

Gettysburg Area SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,782 students; Gettysburg Area HS is among them.

On demographics, Gettysburg Area HS reports that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Gettysburg Area HS higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at Gettysburg Area HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Gettysburg Area HS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.6%; this one delivers 61.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Adams County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,092 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Gettysburg Area HS is one of 26 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students).

The closest other public school is Adams County Technical Institute, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Gettysburg Area HS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gettysburg Area HS ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 1,117 students in 2018 compared to 1,069 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 81% to 71%.

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