Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp

Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp is one of the cozy 9-12 campuss in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, part of Harrisburg City SD, with 347 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 53% below typical.

Within Harrisburg City SD, which oversees 12 schools and 6,462 students, Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp lists that Black students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder reads as 31% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Dauphin County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 93% of students at Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dauphin County (around 59%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.7%; this one delivers 47.1%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Dauphin County put median household income runs about $76,242, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp is one of 75 public schools in Dauphin County (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students).

The closest other public school is Capital Area School for the Arts CS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp. On composite proficiency, Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Harrisburg HS - SciTech Cmp's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 347). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 18% to 31%. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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