Jersey Shore Area MS

Located at 601 Thompson St, in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, Jersey Shore Area MS is a low-enrollment middle school that educates 466 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Jersey Shore Area SD. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 22% below typical.

Jersey Shore Area SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,088 students; Jersey Shore Area MS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Jersey Shore Area MS records that nearly all students (94%) are White. Other groups include 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Jersey Shore Area MS has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jersey Shore Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.3%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lycoming County) records that the typical household earns roughly $63,917 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lycoming County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,288 students), of which Jersey Shore Area MS is one.

Jersey Shore Area El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jersey Shore Area MS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jersey Shore Area MS has edged down 21%, going from 587 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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