Wilkes-Barre Area SD STEM Academy
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Wilkes-Barre Area HS → Genesis School → Graham Academy High School → Wyoming Seminary Upper School → Bais Menachem Youth Development Prog → Holy Redeemer H.S. → New Story School → West Side Career & Technology Center →📋 At a glance
- 📚 4 AP courses offered — Strong
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 1 physics · 3 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 58th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 24% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 75% (Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Wilkes-Barre Area SD STEM Academy compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 58th percentile nationally with 4 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyPA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Wilkes-Barre Area HS, Genesis School, Graham Academy High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
58th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 24% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +5.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 93 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilkes-Barre Area HS Plains |
Public | 0.0 | 2,569 | +17.0% |
| Genesis School Kingston |
Private | 1.6 | 25 | — |
| Graham Academy High School Luzerne |
Private | 2.0 | 41 | — |
| Wyoming Seminary Upper School Kingston |
Private | 2.1 | 719 | — |
| Bais Menachem Youth Development Prog Wilkes Barre |
Private | 2.1 | 48 | — |
| Holy Redeemer H.S. Wilkes Barre |
Private | 2.2 | 464 | -10.9% |
| New Story School Wyoming |
Private | 2.4 | 62 | -23.5% |
| West Side Career & Technology Center Kingston |
Public | 2.4 | 437 | +13.8% |