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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Big Spring Hs

Newville, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
420366001677
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Big Spring Hs is a public high school in Newville, Pennsylvania, run by Big Spring SD. It enrols 739 students — the 17188th largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

739students

17188th nationally, tied with 59

Teachers

56.0FTE

11534th nationally, tied with 479

Students per teacher

13.2students

30273rd nationally, tied with 865

Free or reduced-price lunch

32.6%percent

67354th nationally, tied with 91

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Big Spring SD

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Big Spring Hs739 students
  2. 2Big Spring Ms593 students
  3. 3Oak Flat El Sch394 students
  4. 4Newville El Sch357 students
  5. 5Mount Rock Elem Sch327 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Pennsylvania median across 2,956 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+44.9%
  • Teachers+60.0%
  • Students per teacher−2.2%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−36.3%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.