High · West Virginia
Poca High School
Free meals for allPoca High School, a public high school in Poca, West Virginia: grades 9–12, 410 students, 12.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Putnam County Schools.
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
- 410
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.8
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 69% of high schools in West Virginia
Median 14.7 · 116 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 62% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 66% of high schools in West Virginia
Median 564 · 117 schools compared
Larger than 50% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on West Virginia's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
West Virginia: 46%Not published: too few students tested.
West Virginia General Summative Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
West Virginia: 41%Not published: too few students tested.
West Virginia General Summative Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
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
- Midsize suburb
- Run by
- Putnam County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Putnam County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 1 Dot Way, Poca, WV 25159
- Phone
- (304)755-3951
- City or town
- Poca
- County
- Putnam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Nitro High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 818 | 20.5 |
Saint Albans High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 882 | 18.8 |
| 9–12 | 743 | 13.9 | |
Ben Franklin Career CenterCareer and technical | 9–12 | — | — |
Putnam Career & Technical CenterCareer and technical | 9–12 | 2 | 0.1 |
Sissonville High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 564 | 15.2 |
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).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
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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