Northern Cambria HS

Northern Cambria HS operates as a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania, part of Northern Cambria SD. Current enrollment sits at 262 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 64% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Northern Cambria HS is one of 3 schools operated by Northern Cambria SD, a district that instructs 758 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northern Cambria HS logs that nearly all students (97%) are White.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Cambria County's rate of about 73%.

With demographic context factored in, Northern Cambria HS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.9%; this one delivers 62.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cambria County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,418, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cambria County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,789 students), of which Northern Cambria HS is one.

Northern Cambria El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northern Cambria HS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northern Cambria HS has contracted 22%, going from 334 students in 2018 to 262 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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