Selinsgrove Area HS

Selinsgrove Area HS is a four-year high school of reasonably sized scale in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, overseen by Selinsgrove Area SD, instructing 744 students in grades 9 through 12.

Selinsgrove Area HS is one of 4 schools operated by Selinsgrove Area SD, a district that teaches 2,283 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Selinsgrove Area HS logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, Selinsgrove Area HS reports 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Selinsgrove Area HS higher than the state norm the norm. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Snyder County (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Selinsgrove Area HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 65.8%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, Snyder County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,876 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Selinsgrove Area HS is one of 8 public schools in Snyder County (combined enrollment of about 4,190 students).

Nearest neighbor: Selinsgrove Area El Sch, around 0.2 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Selinsgrove Area HS at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 52.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 805 students in 2018 compared to 744 in 2025.

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