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Enrollment
1,815
High
DISTRICT 1,610 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCRANTON SD·NCES 422109006413
Scranton High School
63 Munchak Way, Scranton, PA 18510 · (570) 348-3481 · Lackawanna County
GRADES 07–12HIGH13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,815 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
20.2:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
1,815 students
DISTRICT 101% · 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 7 | 60 | 3% |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 3% |
| Grade 9 | 396 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 415 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 422 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 463 | 26% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
75.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.8pp since 2023
Math
48.7%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.7% | 48.7% |
| 2023-24 | 80.5% | 51.3% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% 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 22 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 Scranton High School
Scranton High School's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scranton High School this school | 1,815 | 100.0% | 57.0% |
| West Scranton High School Scranton | 1,404 | 99.4% | 35.6% |
| Pocono Mountain West High School Pocono Summit | 1,501 | 99.8% | 46.8% |
| Franklin Towne CHS Philadelphia | 1,292 | 99.8% | 59.9% |
| Pocono Mountain East High School Swiftwater | 1,242 | 99.8% | 62.4% |
| Governor Mifflin SHS Shillington | 1,425 | 99.8% | 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 Scranton High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lackawanna County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #205 of 576 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #208 of 626 ▼ 53 | #3 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #102 of 626 ▼ 23 | #3 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,815 | #44 of 713 | #1 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #572 of 601 | #10 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.3% | #21 of 604 | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #111 of 619 | #2 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.5% | #177 of 221 | #5 of 7 |
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
1,815
+291 (+19%) vs 2020
+119% since 1990-91, when it was 828
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
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 | 1,815 | 89.7 | 20.2:1 | 100% (1,815) |
| 2023-24 | 1,819 | 93.7 | 19.4:1 | 100% (1,815) |
| 2022-23 | 1,710 | 90.7 | 18.9:1 | 93% (1,583) |
| 2020-21 | 1,524 | 99 | 15.4:1 | 91% (1,383) |
| 2017-18 | 1,770 | 127.6 | 13.9:1 | 64% (1,132) |
| 2015-16 | 1,799 | 139 | 12.9:1 | 75% (1,358) |
| 2010-11 | 1,836 | 127 | 14.5:1 | 55% (1,015) |
| 2000-01 | 1,394 | 87 | 16.0:1 | 22% (306) |
| 1990-91 | 828 | 71 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Scranton High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (1,770 to 1,815); teachers down 30% (127.6 to 89.7).
About Scranton High School
Among the schools in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is Scranton High School, a high-enrollment high school. It has an enrollment of 1,815 students in grades 7 through 12. That compares with an average of about 738 students for high schools in Pennsylvania.
Scranton SD counts 15 schools and 9,165 students, including Scranton High School.
At Scranton High School, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 38%. Smaller groups are 34% White, 16% Black, 6% Asian, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 10% of Lackawanna County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 71%.
Teacher count: 89.7 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 20.2:1. Across high schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Roughly 100% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Lackawanna County is 72%.
Scranton High School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 84% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
Scranton High School beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 22.2 points (57.0% versus 34.7%), a top-10% result in Pennsylvania on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Lackawanna County area, the median household earns about $66,223 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Scranton High School shares Lackawanna County with 46 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Charles Sumner #18, is about 0.6 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Scranton High School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Scranton High School as City: Small.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 19%, from 1,524 to 1,815. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 20.2:1, from 15.4:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Lackawanna County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
216,146
Census ACS
Median income
$66,223
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
47
27,006 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Scranton SD
- West Scranton High SchoolHigh · 1,404 students
- Northeast Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 894 students
- West Scranton Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 820 students
- South Scranton Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 798 students
- Isaac Tripp Elementary SchoolElementary · 710 students
- John G Whittier #2Elementary · 442 students
Other schools in Scranton
- West Scranton High SchoolHigh · 1,404 students
- Northeast Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 894 students
- West Scranton Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 820 students
- South Scranton Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 798 students
- Isaac Tripp Elementary SchoolElementary · 710 students
- John G Whittier #2Elementary · 442 students
Other Scranton High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Scranton High. Scranton High School is the largest of the 3.
- SCRANTON HIGH SCHOOLSCRANTON, AR · 212 students
- SCRANTON HIGH SCHOOLScranton, ND · 62 students
Nearby schools
- Charles Sumner #180.6 mi · 250
- John Adams #40.6 mi · 214
- Northeast Intrmd School0.8 mi · 894
- Isaac Tripp Elementary School1.0 mi · 710
- Neil Armstrong #401.1 mi · 441
- West Scranton High School1.2 mi · 1,404
Frequently asked questions
About Scranton High SchoolHow large is Scranton High School?
Scranton High School enrolls approximately 1,815 students in grades 07-12.
What age range does Scranton High School serve?
Scranton High School serves students from grade 07 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Scranton High School have?
Scranton High School employs 90 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.2:1.
How diverse is Scranton High School?
Scranton High School reports a student body of 34% White, 38% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Scranton High School in?
Scranton High School is part of Scranton SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.