Meadville Area SHS

Meadville Area SHS, a reasonably sized senior high in Meadville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Crawford Central SD, educates 708 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Crawford Central SD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,993 students. Meadville Area SHS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Meadville Area SHS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 9% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Crawford County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Meadville Area SHS sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 34.9%; actual is 53.0%, +18.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Crawford County) logs that median household earnings sit near $60,476, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Meadville Area SHS is one of 26 public schools in Crawford County (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students).

Meadville MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Meadville Area SHS comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

Meadville Area SHS operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Meadville Area SHS's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 914 (now 708). Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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