Indiana Area SHS

Located at 450 N 5th St, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Indiana Area SHS is a mid-tier secondary school that hosts 913 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Indiana Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Indiana Area SHS sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Indiana Area SD (2,803 students total), Indiana Area SHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Indiana Area SHS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest looks like 5% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Indiana County's rate of about 66%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Indiana Area SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.5%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Indiana County) records that median household income runs about $60,208, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Indiana County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,470 students), Indiana Area SHS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Indiana Area JHS, around 0.4 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Indiana Area SHS at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 59.1%.

Indiana Area SHS operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Indiana Area SHS has climbed 7%, going from 851 students in 2018 to 913 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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