Hickory HS

Hickory HS is a mid-sized 9-12 campus in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Hermitage SD. The school caters to 768 students in grades 8 through 12.

Hickory HS is one of 4 schools operated by Hermitage SD, a district that caters to 1,984 students overall.

On demographics, Hickory HS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 9% Black, 7% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 45% of students at Hickory HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hickory HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.4%.

In the broader community, Mercer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,976 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mercer County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,815 students), Hickory HS is one campus in the mix.

Karen A. Ionta El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hickory HS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hickory HS has shrank 4%, going from 801 students in 2018 to 768 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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