Dunmore High School is the secondary education, public school for the borough of Dunmore, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Dunmore School District. Dunmore High School is located at 300 West Warren Street. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2016, Dunmore HIgh School reported an enrollment of 733 pupils in grades 7 through 12th. In 2016, the School employed 48 teachers yielding a student-teacher ratio of 15:1.Dunmore High School is one of the three (Scranton, Old Forge, Dunmore) school districts in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania that does not include surrounding boroughs. In June 2014, Dunmore School Board closed the junior high school and consolidated the 7th and 8th grades into the high school building. The middle school functions distinct from the high school.Opportunity ScholarshipIn April 2014, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) released a report identifying Dunmore High School as among the 15% lowest achieving schools in the Commonwealth in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Parents and students may be eligible for scholarships to transfer to another public or nonpublic school through the state's Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program passed in June 2012. The scholarships are limited to those students whose family's income is less than $60,000 annually, with another $12,000 allowed per dependent. Maximum scholarship award is $8,500, with special education students receiving up to $15,000 for a year's tuition. Parents pay any difference between the scholarship amount and the receiving school's tuition rate. Students may seek admission to neighboring public school districts. Each year the PDE publishes the tuition rate for each individual public school district. Funding for the scholarships comes from donations by businesses which receive a state tax credit for donating.
