North Pocono HS

North Pocono HS is one of the reasonably sized senior highs in Covington Twp, Pennsylvania, run under North Pocono SD, with 915 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 24% larger than typical.

Across the 5 schools in North Pocono SD (2,865 students total), North Pocono HS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, North Pocono HS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, North Pocono HS has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at North Pocono HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lackawanna County (around 72%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Pocono HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of +0.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lackawanna County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $66,223 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. North Pocono HS is one of 47 public schools in Lackawanna County (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students).

The closest other public school is North Pocono MS, roughly 2.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, North Pocono HS comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Pocono HS has held roughly steady, going from 938 students in 2018 to 915 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 89% across the same window.

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