Pottstown HS

Pottstown HS, a reasonably sized high school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, operated by Pottstown SD, instructs 911 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Pottstown HS sits 23% above that benchmark.

Pottstown SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,205 students; Pottstown HS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Pottstown HS shows that the most-represented group is Black (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 28% White, 23% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 9% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 101% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pottstown HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Pottstown HS is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students).

Pottstown MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pottstown HS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

Pottstown HS operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Pottstown HS's enrollment has increased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 828 (now 911). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 34% to 28%.

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