Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS
Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS is a modestly sized 9-12 campus in Jefferson, Pennsylvania, run under Jefferson-Morgan SD. The school enrolls 383 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 48% leaner than typical.
Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS is one of 2 schools operated by Jefferson-Morgan SD, a district that works with 774 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 3% multiracial. Compared to Greene County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Greene County's rate of about 69%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.3%; this one delivers 41.3%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Greene County) shows that median household income runs about $68,041, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Greene County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,331 students), of which Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS is one.
Nearest neighbor: Jefferson-Morgan El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 16%: 331 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025.
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