Public school / High
Souderton Area Shs
Souderton, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 422187003354
- District
- Souderton Area SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Souderton Area Shs is a public high school in Souderton, Pennsylvania, run by Souderton Area SD. It enrols 2,129 students — the 1452nd largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.
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
2,129
Teachers
130.0
Students per teacher
16.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
23.2%
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.
Within Souderton Area 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.
- 1Souderton Area Shs2,129 students
- 2Indian Valley Ms763 students
- 3Indian Crest Ms678 students
- 4Vernfield El Sch501 students
- 5Salford Hills El Sch454 students
- 6Oak Ridge El Sch435 students
- 7Franconia El Sch416 students
- 8West Broad Street El Sch376 students
- Enrollment+317.5%
- Teachers+271.4%
- Students per teacher+21.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−54.7%
Where this sits
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