Hazleton Area HS

As a heavily attended senior high in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, Hazleton Area HS works with 4,071 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Hazleton Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 452% larger than the state mean of about 738.

Across the 11 schools in Hazleton Area SD (13,071 students total), Hazleton Area HS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Hazleton Area HS lists that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 29% White. The wider county runs roughly 17% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 214 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Luzerne County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hazleton Area HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the area at large, Luzerne County reports that median household income runs about $63,691, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Luzerne County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,209 students), of which Hazleton Area HS is one.

Maple Manor El/MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hazleton Area HS comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 19%: 3,425 students in 2018 compared to 4,071 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 51% to 68% over that span.

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