Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS

Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS, a low-enrollment middle school in Topton, Pennsylvania, overseen by Brandywine Heights Area SD, enrolls 460 students, covering grades 4 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Brandywine Heights Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,245 students; Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS is among them.

Looking at the student body, Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Berks County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.6%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Berks County shows median household earnings sit near $79,777, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS is one of 95 public schools in Berks County (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students).

The closest other public school is Brandywine Heights El Sch, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 65.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Brandywine Heights Intrmd/MS's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 544 (now 460). Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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