New Hope-Solebury HS

Located at 182 W Bridge St, in New Hope, Pennsylvania, New Hope-Solebury HS is a modestly sized secondary school that serves 450 students (grades 9 through 12), part of New Hope-Solebury SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so New Hope-Solebury HS sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

New Hope-Solebury SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,237 students; New Hope-Solebury HS is among them.

On the student-mix side, New Hope-Solebury HS lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), New Hope-Solebury HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.9%, the actual is 83.0%, a residual of +12.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bucks County indicate the typical household earns roughly $114,764 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. New Hope-Solebury HS is one of 123 public schools in Bucks County (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students).

New Hope-Solebury MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, New Hope-Solebury HS comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. New Hope-Solebury HS's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 450). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 89% to 75%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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