Susquenita HS

Susquenita HS operates as a cozy senior high in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Susquenita SD. Current enrollment sits at 490 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Susquenita SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,698 students. Susquenita HS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Susquenita HS reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Perry County's rate of about 67%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Susquenita HS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 60.1%; Susquenita HS posts 40.9%, -19.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Perry County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,444 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Perry County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,512 students), of which Susquenita HS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Susquenita MS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Susquenita HS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 471 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 93% to 87%.

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