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Arcola Intrmd Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Arcola Intrmd Sch
Arcola Intrmd Sch, a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Methacton SD, serves 692 students, covering grades 7 through 8.
Arcola Intrmd Sch is one of 7 schools operated by Methacton SD, a district that works with 4,581 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Arcola Intrmd Sch logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 13% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Arcola Intrmd Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 21% of students at Arcola Intrmd Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arcola Intrmd Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 58.1%, a residual of -10.6 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Arcola Intrmd Sch is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students).
Nearest neighbor: Skyview Upper El Sch, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arcola Intrmd Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 59.7%.
Arcola Intrmd Sch operates from an outer-ring location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arcola Intrmd Sch has fell 14%, going from 804 students in 2018 to 692 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 72% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.
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