Maplewood JSHS

Maplewood JSHS operates as a cozy high school in Guys Mills, Pennsylvania, part of Penncrest SD. Current enrollment sits at 431 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 738.

Penncrest SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,399 students; Maplewood JSHS is among them.

Demographically, Maplewood JSHS shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Crawford County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Crawford County (around 79%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Maplewood JSHS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.0%; actual is 34.8%, a gap of -22.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Crawford County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,476 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Maplewood JSHS is one of 26 public schools in Crawford County (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students).

The closest other public school is Maplewood El Sch, roughly 3.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Maplewood JSHS comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 515 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.