Bristol MS

Bristol MS is a middle school of micro-enrollment scale in Bristol, Pennsylvania, run under Bristol Borough SD, educateing 187 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 69% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Bristol Borough SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,128 students; Bristol MS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bristol MS logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 13% Black, 11% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bucks County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Bristol MS lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Bristol MS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bucks County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bristol MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of -16.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bucks County put the typical household earns roughly $114,764 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Bristol MS is one of 123 public schools in Bucks County (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bristol HS, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bristol MS comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 224 students in 2018 compared to 187 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.