Canon-McMillan MS

Canon-McMillan MS operates as an average-sized junior high in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, overseen by Canon-McMillan SD. Current enrollment sits at 836 students spanning grades 7 through 8. That puts it 41% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Across the 9 schools in Canon-McMillan SD (5,390 students total), Canon-McMillan MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Canon-McMillan MS logs that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Washington County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Canon-McMillan MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.5%, the actual is 64.7%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $78,958, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Canon-McMillan MS is one of 56 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students).

The closest other public school is Canon-McMillan SHS, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Canon-McMillan MS comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Canon-McMillan MS's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 842 (now 836). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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