Laurel MS

Laurel MS is a junior high of tiny scale in New Castle, Pennsylvania, part of Laurel SD, enrolling 160 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 73% below the state mean of about 594.

Across the 3 schools in Laurel SD (976 students total), Laurel MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Laurel MS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at Laurel MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Lawrence County's rate of about 67%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Laurel MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 59.4%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lawrence County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,931, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lawrence County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,015 students), Laurel MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Laurel HS, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Laurel MS. On composite proficiency, Laurel MS comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

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