Bellefonte Area MS

Bellefonte Area MS is a mid-sized junior high in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Bellefonte Area SD. The school hosts 591 students in grades 6 through 8.

Bellefonte Area SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,579 students; Bellefonte Area MS is among them.

On demographics, Bellefonte Area MS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Bellefonte Area MS lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Bellefonte Area MS tighter than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bellefonte Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.2%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Centre County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,291 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Centre County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,674 students), Bellefonte Area MS is one campus in the mix.

Bellefonte Area HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bellefonte Area MS at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 60.3%.

Bellefonte Area MS operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bellefonte Area MS has shrank 9%, going from 649 students in 2018 to 591 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.