South Williamsport Area JSHS

South Williamsport Area JSHS is a compact four-year high school in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within South Williamsport Area SD. The school instructs 478 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

South Williamsport Area SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,068 students. South Williamsport Area JSHS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, South Williamsport Area JSHS records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Lycoming County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, South Williamsport Area JSHS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.0%; this one comes in at 35.0%, -17.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Lycoming County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,917 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Lycoming County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,288 students), South Williamsport Area JSHS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Central El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Williamsport Area JSHS. On composite proficiency, South Williamsport Area JSHS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 478 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window.

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