Jamestown Area JSHS
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Jamestown Area JSHS
Located at 204 Shenango Street, in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, Jamestown Area JSHS is a micro-enrollment secondary school that instructs 172 students (grades 7 through 12), run under Jamestown Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Jamestown Area JSHS sits 77% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 2 schools in Jamestown Area SD (343 students total), Jamestown Area JSHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Jamestown Area JSHS records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Jamestown Area JSHS has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Jamestown Area JSHS tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 108% of students at Jamestown Area JSHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mercer County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate median household income runs about $59,976, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Mercer County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,815 students), Jamestown Area JSHS is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Jamestown El Sch, around 0.7 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 235 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.
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