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Best High Schools in Coal Center, PA

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290

Students

Top rankedCalifornia Area Senior High School513^th of 681 Pennsylvania high schools

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Summary:

The city of Coal Center, Pennsylvania, is home to a single public high school, the California Area Senior High School, which serves grades 9-12 with an enrollment of 292 students. The school is part of the California Area School District, which is ranked 437 out of 606 school districts in Pennsylvania and is rated 1 out of 5 stars by SchoolDigger.

The California Area Senior High School faces several challenges, including consistently low academic performance on Keystone Exams, with proficiency rates ranging from 26.2% in Algebra I to 49.2% in Literature, compared to the state averages of 44.3% and 62.1%, respectively, in the 2024-2025 school year. The school's four-year graduation rate for the 2023-2024 school year is 87.9%, which is below the state average, and the school has a very high percentage of students (98.97%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.

Despite the school's lower academic performance, it has a relatively high per-student spending of $21,523 for the 2022-2023 school year, which is higher than the state average. The student-teacher ratio for the 2023-2024 school year was 15.5, which is slightly lower than the state average. These factors raise questions about the effectiveness of the school's resource allocation and the need to ensure that funding is being used in the most impactful way to support student learning and achievement.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				Keystone Exams Algebra I (2025)	Keystone Exams Biology (2025)	Keystone Exams Literature (2025)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	Keystone Exams Algebra I 11th Grade	Keystone Exams Biology 11th Grade	Keystone Exams Literature 11th Grade	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
California Area Senior High School	Public	9-12	11 Trojan Way	Coal Center	15423	Washington County	California Area School District	No	No	No	No	(724) 785-5800	290	21	14.0	99.0%	243 (83.8%)	14 (4.8%)	11 (3.8%)	1 (0.3%)	1 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	20 (6.9%)	27.5	513^th of 681 public high schools	24.7%		22.2	547^th of 686 public high schools	20.3%	34	26.2	35.6	49.2	$20,921	$2,012	$18,909

Cities Near Coal Center

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Charleroi	2.64 mi	4	557^th
Monessen	4.27 mi	3	723^rd
Perryopolis	4.63 mi	4	492^nd
Belle Vernon	4.67 mi	4	425^th
Brownsville	5.55 mi	3	701^st

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

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