High · Pennsylvania
Mercer Area SHS
Free meals for allMercer Area SHS, a public high school in Mercer, Pennsylvania: grades 9–12, 282 students, 13.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mercer Area 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
- 282
- Teachers (FTE)
- 21.2
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 49% of high schools in Pennsylvania
Median 13.3 · 712 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 58% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 79% of high schools in Pennsylvania
Median 573 · 715 schools compared
Smaller than 61% 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
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Distant rural area
- Run by
- Mercer Area SD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mercer Area SD.
Location
- Address
- 545 W Butler St, Mercer, PA 16137
- Phone
- (724)662-5104
- City or town
- Mercer
- County
- Mercer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Mercer County Career CenterCareer and technical | 9–12 | 8 | 0.4 |
| 7–12 | 444 | 12.2 | |
| 9–12 | 649 | 14.4 | |
Hickory HSFree meals for all | 8–12 | 768 | 12.0 |
| 7–12 | 332 | 11.1 | |
Reynolds JSHSFree meals for all | 7–12 | 426 | 11.8 |
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).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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