Summary:
The 16749 zip code is home to a single high school, Smethport Area Junior/Senior High School, which serves students in grades 7-12 within the Smethport Area School District. While the school's performance has fluctuated in recent years, it generally performs at or slightly above the district and state averages in academic assessments, with some mixed results in Keystone Exams.
Smethport Area Junior/Senior High School has a statewide ranking that has varied between 400 and 509 out of 674-686 Pennsylvania high schools over the past 3 school years, with a 2-star rating out of 5. The school's 4-year graduation rate for 2023-2024 was 87.9%, slightly below the state average, while its dropout rate for the same year was 1.4%, lower than the state average. In PSSA Math and English Language Arts assessments, the school generally performs at or slightly above the district and state averages across different grade levels, but its 11th-grade students scored below the state average in Algebra I Keystone Exams, despite performing above the state average in Literature.
The school serves a relatively high proportion of economically disadvantaged students, with 48.75% of its students receiving free or reduced-price lunch. However, the school district's spending per student for the 2022-2023 school year was $20,929, higher than the state average, and the school has a lower student-teacher ratio of 7.7, suggesting smaller class sizes and potentially more resources available to support student learning.
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