Enrollment
380
Middle
DISTRICT 298 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLOOMSBURG AREA SD·NCES 420384001611
Bloomsburg Area Middle School
1100 Railroad St, Bloomsburg, PA 17815 · (570) 784-9100 · Columbia County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL380 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
190 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 116 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 120 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 144 | 38% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Bloomsburg Area Middle School→Bloomsburg Area High School
Feeds from
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
52.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -8.0pp since 2023
Math
39.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.8% | 39.2% |
| 2023-24 | 60.8% | 39.4% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bloomsburg Area Middle School
Bloomsburg Area Middle School's state test result (50.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomsburg Area Middle School this school | 380 | 50.0% | 50.1% |
| Marticville Middle School Pequea | 393 | 48.1% | 57.5% |
| Smith Middle School Quarryville | 367 | 48.0% | 32.8% |
| Pennridge South Middle School Perkasie | 332 | 44.9% | 46.5% |
| Wayne Highlands Middle School Honesdale | 408 | 51.0% | 66.3% |
| Bangor Area Middle School Bangor | 421 | 49.4% | 48.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bloomsburg Area Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.1% | #211 of 479 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #228 of 513 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #241 of 513 ▼ 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 380 | #384 of 522 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #325 of 486 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.7% | #296 of 486 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.0% | #255 of 510 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #300 of 332 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
380
+27 (+8%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 413
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 380 | 27.4 | 13.9:1 | 50% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 368 | 27.8 | 13.3:1 | 52% (190) |
| 2022-23 | 354 | 26.5 | 13.4:1 | 46% (164) |
| 2020-21 | 353 | 27 | 13.1:1 | 42% (147) |
| 2017-18 | 388 | 27.1 | 14.3:1 | 52% (200) |
| 2015-16 | 409 | 28 | 14.6:1 | 46% (187) |
| 2010-11 | 360 | 32 | 11.3:1 | 37% (133) |
| 2000-01 | 449 | 31 | 14.5:1 | 37% (167) |
| 1990-91 | 413 | 27 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bloomsburg Area Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (388 to 380); teachers up 1% (27.1 to 27.4).
About Bloomsburg Area Middle School
Among the schools in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, is Bloomsburg Area Middle School, a small middle school. A federal count lists 380 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in Pennsylvania) has about 594 students.
The Bloomsburg Area SD system has 5 schools and 1,492 students.
Most students at Bloomsburg Area Middle School are White: 81% of enrollment. Smaller groups are 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Columbia County is roughly 91% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Bloomsburg Area Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 34%.
A ratio of 13.9:1 comes from the school's 27.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 50% in 2024-25.
Bloomsburg Area Middle School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 56% of Pennsylvania public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, Bloomsburg Area Middle School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 50.1%; the prediction is 56.2%.
Columbia County has these Census figures: median household income is about $64,644, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Bloomsburg Area Middle School is among the 20 public schools in Columbia County.
The nearest public school is Bloomsburg Area High School, at less than a tenth of a mile. There are 3 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Bloomsburg Area Middle School ranks 8th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal data place Bloomsburg Area Middle School in the Town: Distant locale, which means it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 380, 8% above the 353 of 2020-21.
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Columbia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,362
Census ACS
Median income
$64,644
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
7,501 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bloomsburg Area SD
- Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
- Bloomsburg Area High SchoolHigh · 362 students
- W W Evans Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 250 students
- Beaver-Main Elementary SchoolElementary · 95 students
Other schools in Bloomsburg
- Central Columbia Elementary SchoolElementary · 705 students
- Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical SchoolHigh · 609 students
- Central Columbia SHSHigh · 601 students
- Central Columbia Middle SchoolMiddle · 587 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
- Bloomsburg Area High SchoolHigh · 362 students
Nearby schools
- Bloomsburg Area High School0.0 mi · 362
- Memorial Elementary School0.6 mi · 405
- W W Evans Memorial Elementary School1.2 mi · 250
- Central Columbia SHS5.1 mi · 601
- Central Columbia Middle School5.1 mi · 587
- Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School5.5 mi · 609
Frequently asked questions
About Bloomsburg Area Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bloomsburg Area Middle School?
Bloomsburg Area Middle School enrolls approximately 380 students in grades 06-08.
Is Bloomsburg Area Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bloomsburg Area Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Bloomsburg Area Middle School have?
Bloomsburg Area Middle School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Bloomsburg Area Middle School?
Student demographics at Bloomsburg Area Middle School are roughly 81% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Bloomsburg Area Middle School in?
Bloomsburg Area Middle School is part of Bloomsburg Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.