Oley Valley SHS

Set in Oley, Pennsylvania, Oley Valley SHS is a compact high school, one of the schools within Oley Valley SD. It serves 506 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 31% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Oley Valley SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,424 students; Oley Valley SHS is among them.

Demographically, Oley Valley SHS lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Oley Valley SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.7%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Berks County put the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Oley Valley SHS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Berks Career and Technology Center-East Campus, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oley Valley SHS at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 562 students in 2018 compared to 506 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 87% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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