Montoursville Area SHS

Montoursville Area SHS is one of the low-enrollment senior highs in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, overseen by Montoursville Area SD, with 570 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 23% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Montoursville Area SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,679 students. Montoursville Area SHS is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Montoursville Area SHS records that nearly all students (92%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lycoming County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Montoursville Area SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.3%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Lycoming County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $63,917 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Lycoming County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,288 students), of which Montoursville Area SHS is one.

Lyter El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Montoursville Area SHS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.7%.

Montoursville Area SHS operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Montoursville Area SHS has declined 10%, going from 630 students in 2018 to 570 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 96% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.