Western Beaver Co JSHS

Western Beaver Co JSHS is one of the close-knit high schools in Industry, Pennsylvania, operated by Western Beaver County SD, with 359 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 51% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Western Beaver County SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 662 students; Western Beaver Co JSHS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Western Beaver Co JSHS reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Western Beaver Co JSHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Beaver County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Western Beaver Co JSHS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.6%; this one delivers 55.4%.

In the broader community, Beaver County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,089 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Beaver County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students), Western Beaver Co JSHS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Midland El/MS, roughly 2.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Western Beaver Co JSHS. On composite proficiency, Western Beaver Co JSHS comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Western Beaver Co JSHS's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 372 (now 359). The White share of enrollment declined from 97% to 91% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.