Jim Thorpe Area HS

Jim Thorpe Area HS is a high school of compact scale in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, operated by Jim Thorpe Area SD, enrolling 490 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Within Jim Thorpe Area SD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,646 students, Jim Thorpe Area HS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Jim Thorpe Area HS lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Carbon County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Jim Thorpe Area HS lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at Jim Thorpe Area HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Jim Thorpe Area HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Carbon County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $67,554 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Carbon County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,111 students), Jim Thorpe Area HS is one campus in the mix.

L B Morris El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jim Thorpe Area HS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 584 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025.

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