Mount Union Area JHS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mount Union Area JHS
Located at 706 North Shaver Street, in Mount Union, Pennsylvania, Mount Union Area JHS is a micro-enrollment middle-grades school that works with 221 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Mount Union Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 63% leaner than the state mean of about 594.
Across the 4 schools in Mount Union Area SD (1,101 students total), Mount Union Area JHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Mount Union Area JHS shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 10% multiracial, 4% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 111% of students at Mount Union Area JHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Huntingdon County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Around the school, census data for Huntingdon County shows median household income runs about $65,557, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mount Union Area JHS is one of 17 public schools in Huntingdon County (combined enrollment of about 4,454 students).
Nearest neighbor: Mount Union Area SHS, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.
Mount Union Area JHS operates from a countryside location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 230 students in 2018 compared to 221 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.
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