Albert Gallatin South MS

Albert Gallatin South MS is a middle school of close-knit scale in Point Marion, Pennsylvania, run under Albert Gallatin Area SD, hosting 318 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 594.

Albert Gallatin Area SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,894 students; Albert Gallatin South MS is among them.

Demographically, Albert Gallatin South MS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Fayette County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 103% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fayette County runs at roughly 92%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Albert Gallatin South MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of +13.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Fayette County shows median household income runs about $58,236, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Albert Gallatin South MS is one of 39 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students).

Friendship Hill El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Albert Gallatin South MS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Albert Gallatin South MS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.7%.

Albert Gallatin South MS operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Albert Gallatin South MS has shrank 14%, going from 371 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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