Commodore Perry Jshs, Hadley PA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Commodore Perry Jshs

Commodore Perry JSHS sits in a small rural school serving grades seven through twelve in Hadley, a dispersed agricultural area in northern Mercer County. The school's enrollment is modest, with roughly equal cohorts across its grade span. This is a tight-knit setting where students and families know one another, set in a landscape of family farms, rolling terrain, and light manufacturing.

The student body is economically challenged. A very substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the rural poverty context of Perry Township. The population is racially homogeneous, with the enrollment overwhelmingly white and the vast majority of other students from within the surrounding region. State testing data on record from spring 2025 show weak academic performance. In English language arts for grades three through eight, about half of tested students met proficiency standards. In mathematics for the same grades, about three in ten did. When these two results are averaged together, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile among Mercer County districts. No graduation rate or chronic absenteeism data were available, gaps common to schools serving middle grades alongside high school rather than high school alone.

The school sits on a campus shared with an elementary building on Perry Highway in Hadley, a rural, distant locale by state classification. Residents here have little walkable downtown or local commercial core; they live dispersed across farmland and rely on personal vehicles. The nearest interstate is about fifteen miles away. The area has no public transit. A short drive connects to the regional county seat of Mercer, and Youngstown, Ohio is reachable for employment. Housing values in the ZIP code are below the state median and have declined over the past year. The local economy centers on dairy and grain farms and small manufacturing, with a recent expansion of an air-filtration equipment maker expected to bring new jobs, though the township overall faces long-term population decline and an aging population. The school district itself is among the larger employers in the immediate area.

A parent considering this school should understand that it serves a economically stressed rural community with weak recent testing results, particularly in mathematics. The school's small size and rural location mean limited course breadth and specialized programs compared to larger districts. At the same time, students attend school in their immediate community amid peers and families who live and work nearby, and the school connects directly to local civic life centered on the Perry Township area. The weak state test performance, combined with the absence of graduation and attendance data, leaves significant questions about high school completion and student engagement that a parent may want to explore directly with the school and district.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=90%Cohort of 42 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

691 schools plotted. 2 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grades 3-830%

School 30% · District 39% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

English language arts

Grades 3-848%

School 48% · District 48%

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

This schoolCommodore Perry SD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.