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Williamson SHS
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Williamson SHS
Williamson SHS operates as a low-enrollment four-year high school in Tioga, Pennsylvania, part of Northern Tioga SD. Current enrollment sits at 543 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 738.
Williamson SHS is one of 5 schools operated by Northern Tioga SD, a district that educates 1,989 students overall.
Demographically, Williamson SHS shows that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Tioga County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Williamson SHS shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 101% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Tioga County's rate of about 73%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Williamson SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of +3.6 points.
In the area at large, census data for Tioga County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,899 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tioga County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,053 students), of which Williamson SHS is one.
Nearest neighbor: Russell B Walter El Sch, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, Williamson SHS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Williamson SHS has held roughly steady, going from 539 students in 2018 to 543 in 2025.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Tioga County at a glance
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