Mohawk JHS

Mohawk JHS operates as a tight-knit intermediate school in New Castle, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Mohawk Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 329 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Mohawk JHS sits 45% below that benchmark.

Mohawk Area SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,444 students. Mohawk JHS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mohawk JHS lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Mohawk JHS higher than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lawrence County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mohawk JHS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.0%; this one delivers 51.2%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Lawrence County put median household earnings sit near $61,931, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lawrence County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,015 students), of which Mohawk JHS is one.

Mohawk SHS 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, Mohawk JHS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Mohawk JHS's enrollment has climbed 48% since 2018, when it stood at 223 (now 329).

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