Spring Grove Area HS

Set in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, Spring Grove Area HS is a big senior high, part of Spring Grove Area SD. It serves 1,163 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 58% bigger than the state mean of about 738.

Spring Grove Area SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,854 students. Spring Grove Area HS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Spring Grove Area HS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with York County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Spring Grove Area HS has 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at Spring Grove Area HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below York County's rate of about 53%.

After controlling for student poverty, Spring Grove Area HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 61.5%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Around the school, census data for York County shows median household income runs about $84,829, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, York County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), of which Spring Grove Area HS is one.

Spring Grove El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Spring Grove Area HS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spring Grove Area HS at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 56.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spring Grove Area HS has climbed 6%, going from 1,094 students in 2018 to 1,163 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 80% across the same window.

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