Public school / Middle
West Scranton Intrmd Sch
Scranton, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 422109006791
- District
- Scranton SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Scranton Intrmd Sch is a public middle school in Scranton, Pennsylvania, run by Scranton SD. It enrols 862 students — the 11973rd 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
862
Teachers
55.0
Students per teacher
15.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.9%
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 Scranton 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.
- 1Scranton Hs1,710 students
- 2West Scranton Hs1,401 students
- 3Northeast Intrmd Sch965 students
- 4West Scranton Intrmd Sch862 students
- 5South Scranton Intrmd Sch790 students
- 6Isaac Tripp El Sch694 students
- 7John G Whittier #2449 students
- 8Neil Armstrong #40428 students
- Enrollment+69.0%
- Teachers+57.1%
- Students per teacher+16.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+95.1%
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