6th Grade Center

Located at 349 S 9th St, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, 6th Grade Center is a cozy middle-grades school that hosts 331 students (grade 6), one of the schools within Quakertown Community SD. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 594.

Quakertown Community SD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,558 students. 6th Grade Center is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, 6th Grade Center logs that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest comes out to 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Bucks County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, 6th Grade Center logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting 6th Grade Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, 6th Grade Center sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.5%; actual is 37.0%, a gap of -24.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bucks County indicate the typical household earns roughly $114,764 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bucks County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), of which 6th Grade Center is one.

The closest other public school is Quakertown Community HS, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around 6th Grade Center. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), 6th Grade Center ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.4%.

6th Grade Center operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 425 students in 2018 compared to 331 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 81% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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