Enrollment
383
High
DISTRICT 418 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WATTSBURG AREA SD·NCES 422508006148
Seneca High School
10770 Wattsburg Rd, Erie, PA 16509 · (814) 824-4154 · Erie County
GRADES 09–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL383 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
12.0:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
196 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 98 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 105 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 80 | 21% |
| Grade 12 | 100 | 26% |
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 12% · 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 Wattsburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
77.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.7pp since 2023
Math
70.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.1% | 70.2% |
| 2023-24 | 86.8% | 68.5% |
% 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
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Seneca High School
Seneca High School's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seneca High School this school | 383 | 51.2% | 71.3% |
| Jefferson-Morgan MS/HS Jefferson | 383 | 52.0% | 41.3% |
| Homer-Center JSHS Homer City | 392 | 50.5% | 61.7% |
| East Juniata JSHS McAlisterville | 362 | 49.4% | 43.3% |
| Northwest Area High School Shickshinny | 406 | 48.8% | 42.2% |
| Cambria Heights SHS Patton | 419 | 51.8% | 62.2% |
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 Seneca High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #64 of 576 | #4 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #48 of 626 ▼ 3 | #2 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #94 of 626 ▼ 55 | #5 of 15 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 383 | #498 of 713 | #14 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #128 of 601 | #4 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.8% | #457 of 604 | #11 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.2% | #338 of 619 | #11 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.2% | #87 of 373 | #1 of 11 |
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
383
-29 (-7%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 641
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 383 | 31.9 | 12.0:1 | 51% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 388 | 38.4 | 10.1:1 | 51% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 389 | 29.9 | 13.0:1 | 28% (110) |
| 2020-21 | 412 | 31 | 13.3:1 | 25% (103) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 31.4 | 14.5:1 | 30% (139) |
| 2015-16 | 458 | 31 | 14.8:1 | 33% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 549 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 32% (175) |
| 2000-01 | 590 | 32 | 18.4:1 | 15% (89) |
| 1990-91 | 641 | 42 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Seneca High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (457 to 383); teachers up 1% (31.4 to 31.9).
About Seneca High School
This page covers Seneca High School, a low-enrollment high school in Erie, Pennsylvania. In all, 383 students attend the school in grades 9 through 12. That is 48% below the average of about 738 students for high schools in Pennsylvania.
Seneca High School sits within Wattsburg Area SD, which has 3 schools and 1,254 students.
Roughly 93% of students at Seneca High School are White. Other groups make up 4% multiracial. County-wide, 83% of Erie County residents are White. The diversity index for Seneca High School is 14%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 31.9 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 12.0:1. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. By family income, 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 74% for public schools in Erie County.
Among Pennsylvania public high schools, Seneca High School outscored 94%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 55.7% for a school in Pennsylvania with Seneca High School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Seneca High School posts 71.3%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Erie County show that median household income comes to about $63,354, roughly 30% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 68, with about 35,738 students.
Wattsburg Area Middle School is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Seneca High School, there are 2 other public schools. On average proficiency, Seneca High School is 3rd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
NCES assigns Seneca High School the locale Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% decline, from 412 to 383. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.3:1 in 2020-21, and 12.0:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Seneca High School can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
269,052
Census ACS
Median income
$63,354
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
35,738 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wattsburg Area SD
- Wattsburg Area El CenterElementary · 488 students
- Wattsburg Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 383 students
Other schools in Erie
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 2,501 students
- McDowell High SchoolHigh · 2,133 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 769 students
- Northwest PA Collegiate AcademyHigh · 750 students
- Strong Vincent Middle SchoolMiddle · 711 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolElementary · 691 students
Other Seneca High schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Seneca High. Seneca High School is the 5th largest of the 7.
- Seneca HighLouisville, KY · 1,255 students
- Seneca High SchoolTABERNACLE, NJ · 1,058 students
- Seneca HighSeneca, SC · 1,051 students
- SENECA HIGHSENECA, MO · 450 students
- Seneca High SchoolSeneca, IL · 378 students
Nearby schools
- Wattsburg Area Middle School0.1 mi · 383
- Wattsburg Area El Center0.3 mi · 488
- Clark Elementary School6.7 mi · 303
- Belle Valley Elementary School6.9 mi · 626
- Rolling Ridge Elementary School7.6 mi · 472
- JoAnna Connell School7.7 mi · 556
Frequently asked questions
About Seneca High SchoolHow large is Seneca High School?
Seneca High School enrolls approximately 383 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Seneca High School serve?
Seneca High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Seneca High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Seneca High School is approximately 12.0:1 (32 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Seneca High School?
Seneca High School reports a student body of 93% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Seneca High School?
Seneca High School is overseen by Wattsburg Area SD in Erie County.
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