Wyomissing Area JSHS

Wyomissing Area JSHS is a 9-12 campus of average-sized scale in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Wyomissing Area SD, enrolling 965 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 31% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Within Wyomissing Area SD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,890 students, Wyomissing Area JSHS is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Wyomissing Area JSHS lists that White students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Wyomissing Area JSHS has 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 41% of students at Wyomissing Area JSHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Berks County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wyomissing Area JSHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.0%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of -10.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Berks County put median household income runs about $79,777, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Berks County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), Wyomissing Area JSHS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wyomissing Hills El Ctr, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wyomissing Area JSHS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wyomissing Area JSHS at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wyomissing Area JSHS has stayed largely flat, going from 949 students in 2018 to 965 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 58% across the same window.

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