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Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School
Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School operates as a modestly sized senior high in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, run under Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School. Current enrollment sits at 587 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 20% leaner than the state mean of about 738.
Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School sits inside Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
Looking at the student body, Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School reports that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Jefferson County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.7%; this one delivers 24.4%.
Across the wider county, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $58,686, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jefferson County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,873 students), Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: C G Johnson El Sch, around 1.4 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.8%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 67%: 351 students in 2018 compared to 587 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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Jefferson County at a glance
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