Newport HS

Newport HS, a tiny secondary school in Newport, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Newport SD, teaches 267 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Newport HS sits 64% smaller than that benchmark.

Newport SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 931 students; Newport HS is among them.

Demographically, Newport HS logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Newport HS tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 50% of students at Newport HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Perry County (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Newport HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Perry County) shows that median household income runs about $79,444, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Newport HS is one of 15 public schools in Perry County (combined enrollment of about 5,512 students).

The closest other public school is Newport MS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Newport HS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 318 students in 2018 compared to 267 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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