Johnsonburg Area HS

Johnsonburg Area HS is one of the minimally staffed high schools in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, run under Johnsonburg Area SD, with 241 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 67% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Johnsonburg Area SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 513 students; Johnsonburg Area HS is among them.

On demographics, Johnsonburg Area HS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Elk County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Johnsonburg Area HS tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 104% of students at Johnsonburg Area HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Elk County (around 89%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Johnsonburg Area HS ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.0%; Johnsonburg Area HS posts 66.6%, +33.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Elk County indicate median household income runs about $66,380, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Johnsonburg Area HS is one of 10 public schools in Elk County (combined enrollment of about 3,139 students).

Nearest neighbor: Johnsonburg Area El Sch, around 0.7 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Johnsonburg Area HS comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Johnsonburg Area HS's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 269 (now 241).

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