The top reported proficiency rate is 32% in Math. The lowest is 31% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Northeast Bradford Jshs
Northeast Bradford Junior-Senior High School in Rome serves grades seven through twelve in a small rural setting in northeastern Pennsylvania. The school draws from a very small enrollment base spread across six grade levels, with the student body about evenly distributed from seventh grade through twelfth. Nearly half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the enrollment is almost entirely white, with very small numbers of students from other backgrounds.
The school sits on a campus outside Rome's small commercial core, along Panther Lane in a rural, distant locale. Rome itself is a very small borough that has seen minimal population change and no active growth, with a local economy built mainly around dairy farming, auto repair, and small services. The nearest larger town, Towanda, lies about nine miles away. The median home value in the area is below the state benchmark, and rental affordability is relatively strong compared to national averages, though property tax increases have been part of the district's recent budget planning.
On state testing in grades three through eight for the 2024-25 school year, Northeast Bradford's proficiency rate in English language arts stood around a third of students, as did its proficiency in math. Both results place this school in the bottom quartile of proficiency among the districts in Bradford County when comparing schools and districts in that comparison set. The state does not report high school graduation rates or attendance data for this school, so those pictures are not available here. No trend data spanning multiple years is available to show whether performance is moving, holding steady, or changing direction. Special education identification rates and English learner counts were not disclosed in the data provided.
The school is a regular public school, not a charter. Data on course breadth, advanced offerings, vocational pathways, or specific program access was not present in the available sources, so a parent would want to reach out directly to the school to understand what sequences and electives are available to students across the middle and high school grades. Similarly, information on staffing levels, discipline practices, attendance patterns, or detailed school culture was not included in what was reported, leaving those dimensions open for direct inquiry.
Rome and the Northeast Bradford School District are very small. The district's overall enrollment spans roughly the number you see here, concentrated across one junior-senior high and one elementary school. The district has not published a strategic plan or major curriculum initiative in available sources. The most recent publicly reported change at the district level was a tentative budget for 2025-26 that included a property tax increase, which is a direct cost consideration for any resident or parent. For families considering this area, the school represents the main civic and educational anchor in a quiet, economically modest rural borough where school and community are separate entities by location, and where long-term employment and economic activity are limited.
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