South Scranton Intrmd Sch

Located at 355 Maple St, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, South Scranton Intrmd Sch is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus that caters to 798 students (grades 5 through 8), one of the schools within Scranton SD. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

South Scranton Intrmd Sch is one of 15 schools operated by Scranton SD, a district that works with 9,165 students overall.

On demographics, South Scranton Intrmd Sch records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%; the rest comes out to 18% White, 15% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lackawanna County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, South Scranton Intrmd Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.6%; actual is 18.4%, a gap of -17.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lackawanna County) records that median household earnings sit near $66,223, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lackawanna County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), South Scranton Intrmd Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: McNichols Plaza, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Scranton Intrmd Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 35.5%.

South Scranton Intrmd Sch operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. South Scranton Intrmd Sch's enrollment has increased 30% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 798). Over the same period, the White share fell from 40% to 18%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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