Monessen SHS

As a minimally staffed secondary school in Monessen, Pennsylvania, Monessen SHS caters to 193 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Monessen City SD. Enrollment runs roughly 74% leaner than the state mean of about 738.

Across the 3 schools in Monessen City SD (651 students total), Monessen SHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Monessen SHS reports that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 39% White, 12% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 3%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Monessen SHS has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Monessen SHS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.3%; this one comes in at 10.2%, -34.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Westmoreland County shows median household income runs about $74,109, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Monessen SHS is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

Monessen MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Monessen SHS comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Monessen SHS's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 222 (now 193). Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 29% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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