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Enrollment
973
High
DISTRICT 586 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POTTSGROVE SD·NCES 421965003338
Pottsgrove SHS
1345 Kauffman Rd, Pottstown, PA 19464 · (610) 326-5105 · Montgomery County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL973 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
14.8:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
970 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 237 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 238 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 238 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 260 | 27% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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 Pottsgrove SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
64.9%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.5pp since 2023
Math
41.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.9% | 41.7% |
| 2023-24 | 63.4% | 36.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 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 Pottsgrove SHS
Pottsgrove SHS's state test result (53.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pottsgrove SHS this school | 973 | 99.7% | 53.0% |
| New Castle SHS New Castle | 740 | 98.9% | 35.8% |
| Dover Area High School Dover | 979 | 98.7% | 57.0% |
| Mid Valley Secondary Center Throop | 898 | 98.2% | 48.5% |
| Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 Pittsburgh | 840 | 98.3% | 71.5% |
| Octorara Area JSHS Atglen | 703 | 99.6% | 39.8% |
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 Pottsgrove SHS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #255 of 576 | #18 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.7% | #278 of 626 ▲ 50 | #17 of 23 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #235 of 626 ▲ 46 | #16 of 23 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 973 | #190 of 713 | #18 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #400 of 601 | #17 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #83 of 604 | #7 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.7% | #119 of 619 | #3 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #324 of 373 | #6 of 6 |
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
973
-47 (-5%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 778
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 973 | 65.5 | 14.8:1 | 100% (970) |
| 2023-24 | 986 | 63.2 | 15.6:1 | 100% (983) |
| 2022-23 | 1,021 | 66.4 | 15.4:1 | 34% (352) |
| 2020-21 | 1,020 | 67 | 15.2:1 | 34% (350) |
| 2017-18 | 1,001 | 66.9 | 15.0:1 | 28% (277) |
| 2015-16 | 1,006 | 67 | 15.0:1 | 36% (362) |
| 2010-11 | 1,089 | 69 | 15.8:1 | 25% (273) |
| 2000-01 | 997 | 54 | 18.5:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 778 | 62 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pottsgrove SHS.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (1,001 to 973); teachers down 2% (66.9 to 65.5).
About Pottsgrove SHS
Pottsgrove SHS is a medium-sized high school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, under Pottsgrove SD. School enrollment was 973 students in 2024-25, in grades 9 through 12. The average among high schools in Pennsylvania is roughly 738 students; this school is 32% bigger than that.
Pottsgrove SHS is run by Pottsgrove SD, whose 5 schools enroll 2,932 students.
At Pottsgrove SHS, White students make up 57% of the student body. The next largest groups are 18% Black, 13% Hispanic, and 10% multiracial. The school's White share is 16 points below the 73% share among Montgomery County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 62% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at Pottsgrove SHS total 65.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.8:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania. The school counts 970 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 100%. The average for public schools in Montgomery County is 40%.
Pottsgrove SHS is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 75% of Pennsylvania public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Pottsgrove SHS posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.0%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Pennsylvania are predicted to post 34.9%, so the school is 18.1 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
Census Bureau estimates for Montgomery County show that the median household income is $113,915, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Besides Pottsgrove SHS, Montgomery County has 159 other public schools.
Ringing Rocks Elementary School is the public school closest to Pottsgrove SHS, about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Pottsgrove SHS ranks 1st of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 53.0% against a local average of 36.5%.
For locale, NCES codes Pottsgrove SHS as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment declined 5% from its 2020-21 level of 1,020.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
867,573
Census ACS
Median income
$113,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
115,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pottsgrove SD
- Pottsgrove Middle SchoolMiddle · 678 students
- Lower Pottsgrove Elementary SchoolElementary · 646 students
- Ringing Rocks Elementary SchoolElementary · 383 students
- West Pottsgrove Elementary SchoolElementary · 252 students
Other schools in Pottstown
- Owen J Roberts High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Pottstown Middle SchoolMiddle · 918 students
- Pottstown High SchoolHigh · 911 students
- Owen J Roberts Middle SchoolMiddle · 856 students
- Pottsgrove Middle SchoolMiddle · 678 students
- Lower Pottsgrove Elementary SchoolElementary · 646 students
Nearby schools
- Ringing Rocks Elementary School0.2 mi · 383
- Franklin Elementary School0.6 mi · 354
- Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School0.8 mi · 646
- Pottsgrove Middle School0.9 mi · 678
- Pottstown High School1.0 mi · 911
- Pottstown Middle School1.2 mi · 918
Frequently asked questions
About Pottsgrove SHSHow many students attend Pottsgrove SHS?
Pottsgrove SHS enrolls approximately 973 students in grades 09-12.
Is Pottsgrove SHS an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pottsgrove SHS is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Pottsgrove SHS have?
Pottsgrove SHS employs 66 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pottsgrove SHS?
At Pottsgrove SHS, the student body is approximately 57% White, 13% Hispanic, 18% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Pottsgrove SHS in?
Pottsgrove SHS is part of Pottsgrove SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.