Purchase Line JSHS

Set in Commodore, Pennsylvania, Purchase Line JSHS is an intimate senior high, run under Purchase Line SD. It serves 363 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 738.

Within Purchase Line SD, which oversees 2 schools and 716 students, Purchase Line JSHS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Purchase Line JSHS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). Other groups include 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 104% of students at Purchase Line JSHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Indiana County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Purchase Line JSHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of +10.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Indiana County) reports that median household income runs about $60,208, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Indiana County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,470 students), of which Purchase Line JSHS is one.

The closest other public school is Purchase Line El Sch, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Purchase Line JSHS at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Purchase Line JSHS's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 403 (now 363).

In the discussion threads here, members of the Purchase Line JSHS community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.