{"ap_courses":36,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":96.3,"at_a_glance":["McDowell HS is a public high school in Erie, PA, enrolling 2,133 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","Enrollment is down 1% from 2021 to 2024.","It offers 36 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 96% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","301 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 84% of U.S. high schools.","Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 94% in the latest EDFacts release.","It has about 356 students per school counselor.","10% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.","McDowell HS reported that 6 students in the Class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025, were National Merit Commended Students (McDowell HS 2025-2026 school profile).","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":9.6,"city":"Erie","dual_enrollment":true,"enrollment":{"grades_9_12":2133,"year":2024},"enrollment_change_pct":-1.1,"enrollment_change_span":[2021,2024],"faq":[{"a":"McDowell HS offers 36 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 96% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","q":"How many AP courses does McDowell HS offer?"},{"a":"McDowell HS's federal four-year graduation rate was about 94% in the latest EDFacts release.","q":"What is McDowell HS's graduation rate?"},{"a":"McDowell HS is a public high school in Erie, PA, enrolling 2,133 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","q":"How many students attend McDowell HS?"}],"federal_grad_rate_pct":94.0,"feeder_standing":null,"name":"McDowell HS","nces_id":"421533007320","ok":true,"published_college_list":null,"sat_act_national_percentile":84.3,"sat_act_takers":301,"school_facts":[{"class_year":2025,"commended":6,"kind":"national_merit","method":"sweep:judged","qualifier":"commended","quote":"6 Commended Students","retrieved":"2026-10-29","source_name":"McDowell HS 2025-2026 school profile","source_url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1770063162/mtsdorg/jklhlug3gkfxqsnwyckx/McDowellProfile2025-2026.pdf","text":"McDowell HS reported that 6 students in the Class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025, were National Merit Commended Students (McDowell HS 2025-2026 school profile).","where":"page 2"}],"school_type":"Public","slug":"mcdowell-hs","state":"PA","state_measures":{},"students_per_counselor":356,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/mcdowell-hs"}