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Public school / High

Southern Columbia Hs

Catawissa, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
422226001627
District
Southern Columbia Area SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Southern Columbia Hs is a public high school in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, run by Southern Columbia Area SD. It enrols 378 students — the 54279th 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

378students

54279th nationally, tied with 148

Teachers

27.0FTE

48484th nationally, tied with 2,306

Students per teacher

14.0students

37664th nationally, tied with 1,054

Free or reduced-price lunch

14.6%percent

80592nd nationally, tied with 63

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 Southern Columbia 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Hartman El Ctr456 students
  2. 2Southern Columbia Ms401 students
  3. 3Southern Columbia Hs378 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−25.9%
  • Teachers−22.9%
  • Students per teacher+3.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−71.5%
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Where this sits

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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.