Sullivan Co JSHS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sullivan Co JSHS
Sullivan Co JSHS is a high school of cozy scale in Laporte, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Sullivan County SD, instructing 314 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 57% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.
Sullivan County SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 620 students; Sullivan Co JSHS is among them.
Demographically, Sullivan Co JSHS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest comes out to 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Sullivan County as a whole.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, Sullivan Co JSHS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.6%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sullivan County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,764 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Sullivan Co JSHS is one of 2 public schools in Sullivan County (combined enrollment of about 620 students).
Nearest neighbor: Sullivan Co El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sullivan Co JSHS at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.4%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 272 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025.
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