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Avon Grove MS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Avon Grove MS
Avon Grove MS is one of the high-enrollment middle schools in West Grove, Pennsylvania, run under Avon Grove SD, with 1,131 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 90% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.
Avon Grove SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 4,871 students; Avon Grove MS is among them.
In terms of who attends, Avon Grove MS logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 28% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Avon Grove MS reports 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 31% of students at Avon Grove MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Avon Grove MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.2%; this one delivers 59.2%.
Around the school, census data for Chester County shows the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Avon Grove MS is one of 111 public schools in Chester County (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students).
Avon Grove CS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Avon Grove MS comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Avon Grove MS has edged up 38%, going from 819 students in 2018 to 1,131 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 24% to 28%.
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