Carmichaels Area MS

Located at 215 North Vine Street, in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, Carmichaels Area MS is a tiny middle-grades school that teaches 208 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Carmichaels Area SD. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Across the 3 schools in Carmichaels Area SD (934 students total), Carmichaels Area MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Carmichaels Area MS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Carmichaels Area MS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Greene County (around 69%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Carmichaels Area MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 33.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household income runs about $68,041, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Carmichaels Area MS is one of 13 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 4,331 students).

The closest other public school is Carmichaels Area HS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Carmichaels Area MS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carmichaels Area MS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 39.9%.

Carmichaels Area MS operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Carmichaels Area MS's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 230 (now 208). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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