Neshannock JSHS

Neshannock JSHS is a high school of small scale in New Castle, Pennsylvania, part of Neshannock Township SD, works with 545 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 26% smaller than typical.

Within Neshannock Township SD, which oversees 2 schools and 1,233 students, Neshannock JSHS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Neshannock JSHS reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lawrence County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Neshannock JSHS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.5%; this one delivers 62.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lawrence County indicate 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%. Neshannock JSHS is one of 25 public schools in Lawrence County (combined enrollment of about 11,015 students).

The closest other public school is Neshannock Memorial El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Neshannock JSHS comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Neshannock JSHS's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 614 (now 545).

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.