High · Pennsylvania
McDowell HS
McDowell HS, a public high school in Erie, Pennsylvania: grades 9–12, 2,133 students, 14.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Millcreek Township 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
- 2,133
- Teachers (FTE)
- 148.2
- Students per teacher
- 14.4
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 64% of high schools in Pennsylvania
Median 13.3 · 712 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 50% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 96% of high schools in Pennsylvania
Median 573 · 715 schools compared
Larger than 94% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Midsize suburb
- Run by
- Millcreek Township SD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Millcreek Township SD.
Location
- Address
- 3580 West 38th St, Erie, PA 16506
- Phone
- (814)835-5403
- County
- Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Erie HSFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,501 | 13.9 |
Erie County Technical SchoolCareer and technical | 9–12 | 2 | 0.1 |
| 9–12 | 750 | 14.0 | |
Perseus House CS of ExcellenceCharterFree meals for all | 6–12 | 627 | 18.7 |
| 9–12 | 593 | 14.5 | |
Iroquois JSHSFree meals for all | 7–12 | 560 | 14.1 |
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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