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Harbor Creek Senior HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Harbor Creek Senior HS
Set in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania, Harbor Creek Senior HS is a medium-sized four-year high school, part of Harbor Creek SD. It caters to 692 students across grades 9 through 12.
Harbor Creek SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,079 students. Harbor Creek Senior HS is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Harbor Creek Senior HS reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, Harbor Creek Senior HS lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 43% 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 south of Erie County's rate of about 74%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Harbor Creek Senior HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.3%, the actual is 66.4%, a residual of +7.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Erie County put the typical household earns roughly $63,354 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Erie County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students), of which Harbor Creek Senior HS is one.
Nearest neighbor: Harbor Creek Junior HS, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harbor Creek Senior HS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harbor Creek Senior HS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.4%.
Harbor Creek Senior HS operates from an outlying location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 696 students in 2018 compared to 692 in 2025.
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