Beaver Falls MS

Set in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Beaver Falls MS is a low-enrollment middle-grades school, run under Big Beaver Falls Area SD. It enrolls 360 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Beaver Falls MS sits 39% smaller than that benchmark.

Big Beaver Falls Area SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,613 students. Beaver Falls MS is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Beaver Falls MS logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 24% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Beaver Falls MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Beaver County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Beaver Falls MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.5%; this one delivers 35.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Beaver County) reports that median household income runs about $71,089, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Beaver County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students), Beaver Falls MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Central El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Beaver Falls MS. On composite proficiency, Beaver Falls MS comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.

Beaver Falls MS operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 358 students in 2018 compared to 360 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 56% to 45% over that span.

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