Tri-Valley JSHS

Tri-Valley JSHS operates as a small four-year high school in Hegins, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Tri-Valley SD. Current enrollment sits at 427 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 738.

Tri-Valley SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 882 students. Tri-Valley JSHS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Tri-Valley JSHS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%); the rest reads as 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Schuylkill County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Tri-Valley JSHS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 63.0%; Tri-Valley JSHS posts 40.5%, -22.4 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Schuylkill County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,313 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Schuylkill County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,259 students), of which Tri-Valley JSHS is one.

The closest other public school is Hegins-Hubley El Sch, roughly 2.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tri-Valley JSHS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tri-Valley JSHS has edged up 7%, going from 399 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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