Troy Area JSHS

Troy Area JSHS, a moderately sized secondary school in Troy, Pennsylvania, run under Troy Area SD, teaches 660 students, covering grades 7 through 12.

Troy Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,389 students; Troy Area JSHS is among them.

On demographics, Troy Area JSHS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Bradford County's rate of about 90%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Troy Area JSHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.0%, the actual is 42.4%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the broader community, Bradford County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,675 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Bradford County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,392 students), of which Troy Area JSHS is one.

Troy Intrmd Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Troy Area JSHS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Troy Area JSHS has held roughly steady, going from 652 students in 2018 to 660 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 5.6:1 in 2025.

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