Public school / High
Williams Valley Jshs
Tower City, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 422640003914
- District
- Williams Valley SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Williams Valley Jshs is a public high school in Tower City, Pennsylvania, run by Williams Valley SD. It enrols 440 students — the 45270th 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
440
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
12.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
97.5%
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 Williams Valley 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.
- 1Williams Valley El Sch521 students
- 2Williams Valley Jshs440 students
- Enrollment−13.7%
- Teachers+2.9%
- Students per teacher−9.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+90.4%
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