Beaver Area MS

Located at Gypsy Glen Rd, in Beaver, Pennsylvania, Beaver Area MS is a tight-knit junior high that enrolls 291 students (grades 7 through 8), run under Beaver Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Beaver Area MS sits 51% below that benchmark.

Beaver Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,981 students; Beaver Area MS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beaver Area MS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Beaver Area MS lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Beaver Area MS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Beaver County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Beaver Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Beaver County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,089 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Beaver Area MS is one of 52 public schools in Beaver County (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students).

Beaver Area SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Beaver Area MS comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.2%.

Beaver Area MS operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beaver Area MS has fell 14%, going from 338 students in 2018 to 291 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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