Benton Area MS

Located at 400 Park St, in Benton, Pennsylvania, Benton Area MS is an one-room-style middle school that caters to 100 students (grades 7 through 8), part of Benton Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Benton Area MS sits 83% leaner than that benchmark.

Benton Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 608 students; Benton Area MS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Benton Area MS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 4% Black. Compared to Columbia County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Columbia County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Benton Area MS ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 36.0%; Benton Area MS posts 56.0%, +20.0 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Columbia County) records that median household income runs about $64,644, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Benton Area MS is one of 20 public schools in Columbia County (combined enrollment of about 7,501 students).

Nearest neighbor: Benton Area HS, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Benton Area MS comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

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