Greater Johnstown SHS

Located at 222 Central Ave, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Greater Johnstown SHS is an average-sized four-year high school that instructs 917 students (grades 8 through 12), operated by Greater Johnstown SD. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Greater Johnstown SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,805 students. Greater Johnstown SHS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Greater Johnstown SHS logs that the most-represented group is Black (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 36% White, 18% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Cambria County as a whole is about 3% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Greater Johnstown SHS lists 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 93% of students at Greater Johnstown SHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cambria County (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Greater Johnstown SHS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.6%; Greater Johnstown SHS posts 14.8%, -22.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cambria County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,418 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Greater Johnstown SHS is one of 37 public schools in Cambria County (combined enrollment of about 15,789 students).

Greater Johnstown MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Greater Johnstown SHS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.3%.

Greater Johnstown SHS operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 1,035 students in 2018 compared to 917 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 55% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Greater Johnstown SHS typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.