Shamokin Area MS

Located at 2000 W State St, in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, Shamokin Area MS is a small junior high that enrolls 351 students (grades 7 through 8), overseen by Shamokin Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 41% smaller than the state mean of about 594.

Shamokin Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,164 students; Shamokin Area MS is among them.

Demographically, Shamokin Area MS lists that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 15% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Shamokin Area MS has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Shamokin Area MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Northumberland County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Shamokin Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Around the school, Northumberland County reports that median household income runs about $60,583, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Shamokin Area MS is one of 23 public schools in Northumberland County (combined enrollment of about 10,386 students).

Nearest neighbor: Shamokin Area HS, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Shamokin Area MS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 369 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 90% to 77%.

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