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Enrollment
570
High
DISTRICT 420 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTOURSVILLE AREA SD·NCES 421575003045
Montoursville Area SHS
700 Mulberry St, Montoursville, PA 17754 · (570) 368-2611 · Lycoming County
GRADES 09–12HIGH23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL570 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
190 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 145 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 134 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 140 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 151 | 26% |
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Montoursville Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
71.1%
PA avg 51.1% . +16.9pp since 2023
Math
46.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.1% | 46.8% |
| 2023-24 | 54.2% | 41.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Montoursville Area SHS
Montoursville Area SHS's state test result (49.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montoursville Area SHS this school | 570 | 33.3% | 49.5% |
| Littlestown SHS Littlestown | 532 | 34.0% | 70.7% |
| Deer Lakes High School Cheswick | 581 | 34.8% | 54.4% |
| Chartiers-Houston JSHS Houston | 539 | 36.7% | 55.1% |
| Palisades High School Kintnersville | 465 | 30.5% | 59.2% |
| Oley Valley SHS Oley | 506 | 32.4% | 59.9% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Montoursville Area SHS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lycoming County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #311 of 576 | #4 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #227 of 626 ▲ 47 | #5 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.1% | #151 of 626 ▲ 260 | #1 of 8 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 570 | #358 of 713 | #4 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #362 of 601 | #6 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.5% | #437 of 604 | #5 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.3% | #514 of 619 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.5% | #192 of 373 | #3 of 7 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
570
-50 (-8%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 691
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 570 | 39.5 | 14.4:1 | 33% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 573 | 37.9 | 15.1:1 | 33% (190) |
| 2022-23 | 590 | 38.5 | 15.3:1 | 32% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 620 | 42 | 14.8:1 | 26% (161) |
| 2017-18 | 630 | 37.3 | 16.9:1 | 27% (171) |
| 2015-16 | 599 | 42 | 14.3:1 | 25% (148) |
| 2010-11 | 616 | 45 | 13.7:1 | 22% (133) |
| 2000-01 | 828 | 50 | 16.6:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 691 | 46 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Montoursville Area SHS.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (630 to 570); teachers up 6% (37.3 to 39.5).
About Montoursville Area SHS
Montoursville Area SHS is a small high school in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. The school counts 570 students across grades 9 through 12. The school's enrollment is 23% smaller than the 738 average for high schools in Pennsylvania.
Montoursville Area SD runs 4 schools with a combined 1,679 students. Montoursville Area SHS is one of them.
About 92% of the student body at Montoursville Area SHS is White. Beyond that, enrollment is 4% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. The White share in Lycoming County as a whole is similar, at about 89%. Pick two students at random and there is a 16% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 14.4:1 comes from the school's 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania. The lunch program counts 33% of students at Montoursville Area SHS as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 60% for public schools in Lycoming County.
allk12 grades Montoursville Area SHS a C. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Montoursville Area SHS would be expected to post about 63.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 49.5%.
Census estimates describe Lycoming County this way: the median household income is $63,917, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Besides Montoursville Area SHS, Lycoming County has 29 other public schools.
Nearby, Lyter Elementary School is about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles of Montoursville Area SHS, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 50.7%; Montoursville Area SHS's is 49.5%, ranking 5th of 8.
The NCES locale for Montoursville Area SHS is Suburb: Small, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Federal data show an 8% enrollment decrease, from 620 in 2020-21 to 570 in 2024-25.
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Lycoming County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,489
Census ACS
Median income
$63,917
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
30
14,288 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montoursville Area SD
- C E McCall Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
- Lyter Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Loyalsock Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 197 students
Other schools in Montoursville
- Donald E. Schick SchoolElementary · 721 students
- C E McCall Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
- Lyter Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Loyalsock Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 197 students
Nearby schools
- Lyter Elementary School0.3 mi · 382
- C E McCall Middle School0.8 mi · 530
- Donald E. Schick School1.6 mi · 721
- Loyalsock Twp SHS2.6 mi · 436
- Loyalsock Twp Middle School2.6 mi · 353
- South Williamsport Area JSHS4.4 mi · 478
Frequently asked questions
About Montoursville Area SHSHow many students attend Montoursville Area SHS?
Montoursville Area SHS enrolls approximately 570 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Montoursville Area SHS serve?
Montoursville Area SHS serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Montoursville Area SHS?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Montoursville Area SHS is approximately 14.4:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Montoursville Area SHS?
At Montoursville Area SHS, the student body is approximately 92% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Montoursville Area SHS public or private?
Montoursville Area SHS is a public K-12 school, overseen by Montoursville Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.