{"ap_courses":7,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":73.4,"at_a_glance":["James Buchanan HS is a public high school in Mercersburg, PA, enrolling 721 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","Enrollment is up 14% from 2021 to 2024.","It offers 7 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 73% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","42 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 39% of U.S. high schools.","Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 87% in the latest EDFacts release.","It has about 360 students per school counselor.","22% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.","Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named."],"caveats":["UC admits and applications are counted at each campus: a student admitted to three UCs counts three times. The UC Reach Score is those admits divided by the senior class, times 100, so a strong school scores above 100.","A published college list is the school's own document, copied as printed; counts are the school's, never ours, and an unnumbered list carries no counts.","Enrollment is NCES CCD for national pages and CDE for California pages; graduation and readiness measures are the state's or EDFacts' own definitions, named in each sentence.","Every figure here is also rendered on the HTML page it describes."],"chronic_absenteeism_pct":22.4,"city":"Mercersburg","dual_enrollment":true,"enrollment":{"grades_9_12":721,"year":2024},"enrollment_change_pct":14.5,"enrollment_change_span":[2021,2024],"faq":[{"a":"James Buchanan HS offers 7 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 73% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","q":"How many AP courses does James Buchanan HS offer?"},{"a":"James Buchanan HS's federal four-year graduation rate was about 87% in the latest EDFacts release.","q":"What is James Buchanan HS's graduation rate?"},{"a":"James Buchanan HS is a public high school in Mercersburg, PA, enrolling 721 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","q":"How many students attend James Buchanan HS?"}],"federal_grad_rate_pct":87.0,"feeder_standing":null,"name":"James Buchanan HS","nces_id":"422274006280","ok":true,"published_college_list":null,"sat_act_national_percentile":38.8,"sat_act_takers":42,"school_facts":[],"school_type":"Public","slug":"james-buchanan-hs","state":"PA","state_measures":{},"students_per_counselor":360,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/james-buchanan-hs"}