Slippery Rock Area HS

As a cozy high school in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock Area HS caters to 627 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Slippery Rock Area SD.

Slippery Rock Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,833 students; Slippery Rock Area HS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Slippery Rock Area HS records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. Compared to Butler County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Slippery Rock Area HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Butler County) records that median household earnings sit near $89,843, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Butler County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students), Slippery Rock Area HS is one campus in the mix.

Slippery Rock Area MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Slippery Rock Area HS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Slippery Rock Area HS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.8%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Slippery Rock Area HS has edged down 4%, going from 653 students in 2018 to 627 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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