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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Pennridge HS this year?
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Enrollment
2,125
High
DISTRICT 543 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNRIDGE SD·NCES 421875001100
Pennridge High School
1228 North Fifth Street, Perkasie, PA 18944 · (215) 453-6944 · Bucks County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL2,125 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public high schools
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
125 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
590 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 528 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 501 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 545 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 551 | 26% |
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pennridge SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
77.5%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
53.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +19.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.5% | 53.9% |
| 2023-24 | 76.9% | 34.8% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pennridge High School
Pennridge High School's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennridge High School this school | 2,125 | 27.8% | 60.5% |
| Boyertown Area SHS Boyertown | 2,052 | 30.2% | 62.6% |
| Seneca Valley High School Harmony | 2,282 | 23.4% | 56.5% |
| Canon-McMillan SHS Canonsburg | 1,660 | 30.4% | 62.8% |
| Norwin High School North Huntingdon | 1,671 | 30.2% | 74.6% |
| North Hills High School Pittsburgh | 1,443 | 30.3% | 55.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pennridge High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #164 of 576 | #8 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #171 of 626 ▲ 174 | #9 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #90 of 626 ▲ 19 | #6 of 18 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,125 | #32 of 713 | #4 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #525 of 601 | #16 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.2% | #296 of 604 | #15 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.8% | #551 of 619 | #12 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #186 of 373 | #4 of 12 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
2,125
-245 (-10%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 1,523
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 17.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 2,125 | 124.6 | 17.1:1 | 28% (590) |
| 2023-24 | 2,155 | 132.6 | 16.3:1 | 27% (590) |
| 2022-23 | 2,285 | 138 | 16.6:1 | 21% (481) |
| 2020-21 | 2,370 | 134 | 17.7:1 | 17% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 2,355 | 122.2 | 19.3:1 | 19% (438) |
| 2015-16 | 2,350 | 127 | 18.5:1 | 19% (446) |
| 2010-11 | 2,349 | 145 | 16.2:1 | 13% (296) |
| 2000-01 | 2,038 | 119 | 17.1:1 | 5% (112) |
| 1990-91 | 1,523 | 104 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pennridge High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (2,355 to 2,125); teachers up 2% (122.2 to 124.6).
About Pennridge High School
The public high school Pennridge High School is located in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. It teaches 2,125 students in grades 9 through 12. That is 188% bigger than the average of about 738 students for high schools in Pennsylvania.
Pennridge SD has a total of 11 schools and 5,968 students, Pennridge High School among them.
Roughly 82% of students at Pennridge High School are White. Enrollment also includes 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black, and 2% Asian. Bucks County residents are about 81% White, a similar share. The diversity index for Pennridge High School is 31%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Pennridge High School lists 124.6 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 17.1 students per teacher. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania is 4.3 students per teacher. About 28% of students at Pennridge High School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 40% average for public schools in Bucks County is 12 points.
Among Pennsylvania public high schools, Pennridge High School outscored 61%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Pennridge High School, the prediction is 65.7% and the result is 60.5%.
For Bucks County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $114,764, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 123 public schools in the county, enrolling about 81,956, Pennridge High School among them.
The closest school to Pennridge High School is Pennridge North Middle School, located about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Pennridge High School is behind the 62.7% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
The NCES locale for Pennridge High School is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 10%.
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Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pennridge SD
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Pennridge Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 456 students
- Bedminster Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Grasse Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Seylar Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
Other schools in Perkasie
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Pennridge Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 456 students
- Bedminster Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Seylar Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Pennridge South Middle SchoolMiddle · 332 students
Nearby schools
- Pennridge North Middle School0.3 mi · 510
- Deibler Elementary School0.8 mi · 329
- Patricia A Guth Elementary School0.9 mi · 399
- Pennridge South Middle School2.2 mi · 332
- Seylar Elementary School2.6 mi · 382
- Pennridge Central Middle School2.8 mi · 456
Frequently asked questions
About Pennridge High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pennridge High School?
Pennridge High School enrolls approximately 2,125 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Pennridge High School serve?
Pennridge High School serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Pennridge High School have?
Pennridge High School employs 125 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pennridge High School?
At Pennridge High School, the student body is approximately 82% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Pennridge High School in?
Pennridge High School is part of Pennridge SD.
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