Springdale JSHS

Located at 501 Butler Rd, in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Springdale JSHS is a compact secondary school that enrolls 421 students (grades 7 through 12), run under Allegheny Valley SD. Enrollment runs roughly 43% below the state mean of about 738.

Allegheny Valley SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 879 students; Springdale JSHS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Springdale JSHS reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Springdale JSHS logs 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Springdale JSHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Springdale JSHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of +10.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Allegheny County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Springdale JSHS is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Nearest neighbor: Acmetonia El Sch, around 1.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Springdale JSHS at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 46.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 419 students in 2018 compared to 421 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 95% to 90%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 in 2025.

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