Greenwood HS

Greenwood HS is a four-year high school of rural-scale scale in Millerstown, Pennsylvania, operated by Greenwood SD, works with 235 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 68% smaller than typical.

Greenwood HS is one of 3 schools operated by Greenwood SD, a district that educates 703 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Greenwood HS logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Perry County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Greenwood HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.8%.

In the broader community, Perry County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,444 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Greenwood HS is one of 15 public schools in Perry County (combined enrollment of about 5,512 students).

The closest other public school is Greenwood MS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Greenwood HS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Greenwood HS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.4%.

Greenwood HS operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Greenwood HS's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 226 (now 235).

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