Pocono Mountain West HS

Pocono Mountain West HS is an expansive four-year high school in Pocono Summit, Pennsylvania, part of Pocono Mountain SD. The school caters to 1,501 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 103% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Pocono Mountain SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 7,781 students. Pocono Mountain West HS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Pocono Mountain West HS logs that 36% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 31% White, 29% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Pocono Mountain West HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Monroe County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pocono Mountain West HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of +12.0 points.

Across the wider county, Monroe County reports that median household income runs about $83,565, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,752 students), of which Pocono Mountain West HS is one.

Pocono Mountain West JHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 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), Pocono Mountain West HS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 1,682 students in 2018 compared to 1,501 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 30% to 36% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.