Wyalusing Valley JSHS

Wyalusing Valley JSHS operates as a modestly sized four-year high school in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, run under Wyalusing Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 586 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 738.

Wyalusing Area SD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,219 students. Wyalusing Valley JSHS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Wyalusing Valley JSHS logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Wyalusing Valley JSHS has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Wyalusing Valley JSHS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bradford County (around 90%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wyalusing Valley JSHS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Bradford County indicate median household income runs about $63,675, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Wyalusing Valley JSHS is one of 19 public schools in Bradford County (combined enrollment of about 8,392 students).

The closest other public school is Wyalusing Valley El Sch, roughly 0.2 miles away. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wyalusing Valley JSHS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 589 students in 2018 compared to 586 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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