Hamburg Area HS

Located at 701 Windsor Street, in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, Hamburg Area HS is a medium-sized four-year high school that instructs 674 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Hamburg Area SD.

Hamburg Area HS is one of 4 schools operated by Hamburg Area SD, a district that teaches 2,045 students overall.

Demographically, Hamburg Area HS reports that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Hamburg Area HS reports 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at Hamburg Area HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hamburg Area HS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.0%; this one delivers 43.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Berks County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Hamburg Area HS is one.

Hamburg Area Middle School 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hamburg Area HS at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Hamburg Area HS's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 690 (now 674). White enrollment moved from 90% to 84% across the same window.

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