Wilmington Area JSHS

Wilmington Area JSHS is a 9-12 campus of low-enrollment scale in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, part of Wilmington Area SD, instructing 444 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Wilmington Area JSHS sits 40% below that benchmark.

Within Wilmington Area SD, which oversees 3 schools and 943 students, Wilmington Area JSHS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Wilmington Area JSHS shows that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest looks like 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lawrence County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Wilmington Area JSHS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 66.6%; this one comes in at 49.0%, -17.6 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lawrence County put median household earnings sit near $61,931, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Wilmington Area JSHS is one of 25 public schools in Lawrence County (combined enrollment of about 11,015 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wilmington Area Upper El Sch, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Wilmington Area JSHS. On composite proficiency, Wilmington Area JSHS comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Wilmington Area JSHS's enrollment has edged up 15% since 2018, when it stood at 385 (now 444). Class-load math has tightened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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