West Scranton Intrmd Sch

Located at 1401 Fellows St, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, West Scranton Intrmd Sch is a reasonably sized junior high that educates 820 students (grades 5 through 8), part of Scranton SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so West Scranton Intrmd Sch sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 15 schools in Scranton SD (9,165 students total), West Scranton Intrmd Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, West Scranton Intrmd Sch logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 33% White, 15% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Lackawanna County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 102% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lackawanna County (around 72%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Scranton Intrmd Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Lackawanna County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,223 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Lackawanna County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), of which West Scranton Intrmd Sch is one.

The closest other public school is West Scranton HS, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts West Scranton Intrmd Sch at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 7%: 768 students in 2018 compared to 820 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 57% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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