High · Pennsylvania
Central Dauphin SHS
Central Dauphin SHS, a public high school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: grades 9–12, 1,966 students, 15.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Central Dauphin SD.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,966
- Teachers (FTE)
- 129.3
- Students per teacher
- 15.2
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 74% of high schools in Pennsylvania
Median 13.3 · 712 schools compared
More students per teacher than 55% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 95% of high schools in Pennsylvania
Median 573 · 715 schools compared
Larger than 92% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Central Dauphin SD
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Location
- Address
- 437 Piketown Road, Harrisburg, PA 17112
- Phone
- (717)703-5360
- County
- Dauphin County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Dauphin County Technical SchoolCareer and technical | 9–12 | 1,187 | 15.0 |
Central Dauphin East SHSFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,573 | 13.6 |
| 9–12 | 767 | 13.3 | |
| 6–12 | 7 | 3.3 | |
| 9–12 | 1,057 | 12.1 | |
Harrisburg HSFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,343 | 18.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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