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Enrollment
546
High
DISTRICT 485 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALISBURY TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 422073002833
Salisbury SHS
500 E Montgomery St, Allentown, PA 18103 · (610) 797-4107 · Lehigh County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL546 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% 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.
- 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
17.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
254 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 128 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 136 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 140 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 142 | 26% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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 Salisbury Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
74.8%
PA avg 51.1% . +7.1pp since 2023
Math
34.4%
PA avg 43.0% . -9.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.8% | 34.4% |
| 2023-24 | 67.7% | 43.8% |
% 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
52.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Salisbury SHS
Salisbury SHS's state test result (52.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury SHS this school | 546 | 46.5% | 52.2% |
| Middletown Area High School Middletown | 702 | 50.7% | 49.9% |
| Wilson Area High School Easton | 709 | 52.9% | 54.4% |
| Biglerville High School Biglerville | 535 | 45.4% | 58.9% |
| Stroudsburg Junior High School Stroudsburg | 721 | 51.9% | 45.5% |
| West York Area High School York | 851 | 53.1% | 49.8% |
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 Salisbury SHS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #271 of 576 | #5 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #359 of 626 ▼ 115 | #7 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.8% | #105 of 626 ▲ 102 | #3 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #376 of 713 | #8 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #540 of 601 | #10 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.9% | #70 of 604 | #2 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.5% | #392 of 619 | #7 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.7% | #289 of 373 | N/A |
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
546
+23 (+4%) vs 2020
+44% since 1990-91, when it was 379
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 546 | 31.5 | 17.3:1 | 47% (254) |
| 2023-24 | 545 | 31.5 | 17.3:1 | 47% (254) |
| 2022-23 | 524 | 35.5 | 14.8:1 | 33% (172) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | 34 | 15.4:1 | 18% (93) |
| 2017-18 | 573 | 42.1 | 13.6:1 | 24% (140) |
| 2015-16 | 566 | 40 | 14.2:1 | 30% (168) |
| 2010-11 | 426 | 33 | 12.9:1 | 12% (49) |
| 2000-01 | 428 | 28 | 15.3:1 | 5% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 379 | 33 | 11.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Salisbury SHS.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (573 to 546); teachers down 25% (42.1 to 31.5).
About Salisbury SHS
Salisbury SHS is a small high school in Salisbury Township SD, located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The school's 546 students are in grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in Pennsylvania average about 738 students each.
Salisbury Township SD has 1,455 students in 3 schools, and Salisbury SHS is one of those schools.
A majority of students at Salisbury SHS, 53%, are White. Next come 27% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 5% Black, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 62% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Salisbury SHS belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
Its 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 17.3:1. The average ratio among high schools in Pennsylvania is 12.8:1, lower than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 47% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 70% average for public schools in Lehigh County is 23 points higher.
Measured against Pennsylvania public high schools, Salisbury SHS receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Salisbury SHS sits between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 52.2% and a predicted 57.7%.
Within Lehigh County, median household income is about $80,079, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Lehigh County number 83 and enroll about 56,984.
The nearest other public school, Salisbury Elementary School, is about 0.7 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Salisbury SHS. On state test proficiency, Salisbury SHS ranks 2nd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Salisbury SHS is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Salisbury SHS went from 523 students to 546. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.4:1 in 2020-21, and 17.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Salisbury Township SD
- Salisbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Salisbury Middle SchoolMiddle · 448 students
Other schools in Allentown
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 3,279 students
- William Allen High SchoolHigh · 3,074 students
- Louis E Dieruff High SchoolHigh · 1,914 students
- Executive Education Academy CSCombined · 1,497 students
- Springhouse Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
- Lincoln Leadership Academy CSCombined · 973 students
Nearby schools
- Salisbury Elementary School0.7 mi · 461
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.8 mi · 631
- Hiram W Dodd Elementary School1.1 mi · 627
- South Mountain Middle School1.2 mi · 972
- Arts Academy CS1.3 mi · 296
- Jefferson Elementary School1.5 mi · 522
Frequently asked questions
About Salisbury SHSWhat is the total enrollment at Salisbury SHS?
Salisbury SHS enrolls approximately 546 students in grades 09-12.
Is Salisbury SHS an elementary, middle, or high school?
Salisbury SHS is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Salisbury SHS?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at Salisbury SHS.
How diverse is Salisbury SHS?
Salisbury SHS reports a student body of 53% White, 27% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Salisbury SHS in?
Salisbury SHS is part of Salisbury Township SD.
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