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What's one thing Cedar Crest MS gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,224
Middle
DISTRICT 814 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORNWALL-LEBANON SD·NCES 420684006301
Cedar Crest Middle School
101 E Evergreen Rd, Lebanon, PA 17042 · (717) 272-2032 · Lebanon County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,224 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% 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.
- C+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
17.4:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
596 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 391 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 393 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 440 | 36% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
Cedar Crest Middle School→Cedar Crest High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Cornwall-Lebanon SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
58.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -0.6pp since 2023
Math
37.4%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.1% | 37.4% |
| 2023-24 | 58.7% | 38.0% |
% 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
48.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Cedar Crest Middle School
Cedar Crest Middle School's state test result (48.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Crest Middle School this school | 1,224 | 48.7% | 48.9% |
| Lower Macungie Middle School Macungie | 1,041 | 40.7% | 56.2% |
| Northampton Area Middle School Northampton | 1,175 | 49.4% | 40.4% |
| Central York Middle School York | 844 | 46.6% | 49.1% |
| Conewago Valley Intrmd School New Oxford | 842 | 50.7% | 56.2% |
| East Hills Middle School Bethlehem | 966 | 52.7% | 36.2% |
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 Cedar Crest Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lebanon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.9% | #229 of 479 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #247 of 513 ▼ 18 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #166 of 513 ▲ 59 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,224 | #19 of 522 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #470 of 486 | #6 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.7% | #140 of 486 | #1 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.7% | #271 of 510 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.0% | #64 of 131 | N/A |
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
1,224
+11 (+1%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 875
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 1,224 | 70.5 | 17.4:1 | 49% (596) |
| 2023-24 | 1,235 | 72.7 | 17.0:1 | 48% (596) |
| 2022-23 | 1,302 | 72.5 | 18.0:1 | 44% (569) |
| 2020-21 | 1,213 | 69 | 17.6:1 | 38% (464) |
| 2017-18 | 1,133 | 72 | 15.7:1 | 38% (434) |
| 2015-16 | 1,113 | 72 | 15.5:1 | 36% (404) |
| 2010-11 | 1,132 | 70 | 16.2:1 | 28% (312) |
| 2000-01 | 1,117 | 66 | 16.9:1 | 15% (165) |
| 1990-91 | 875 | 51 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Crest Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (1,133 to 1,224); teachers down 2% (72 to 70.5).
About Cedar Crest Middle School
Cedar Crest Middle School is a high-enrollment middle school in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. The student body numbers 1,224 students, from grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in Pennsylvania is about 594, so this school runs 106% larger than that.
The 6 schools of Cornwall-Lebanon SD, including Cedar Crest Middle School, enroll 4,881 students.
Roughly 65% of students at Cedar Crest Middle School are White. The school is also 22% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 81%. The school's diversity index is 53%, meaning two students picked at random have a 53% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal staffing data show 70.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Cedar Crest Middle School and a ratio of 17.4:1. This ratio sits 4.2 above the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 49% of students. That is lower than the 61% average for public schools in Lebanon County.
Cedar Crest Middle School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 51% of Pennsylvania public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Cedar Crest Middle School, the prediction is 56.7% and the result is 48.9%.
Among Lebanon County residents, the median household income is $78,425, roughly 24% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Cedar Crest Middle School is one of 37 public schools in the county.
Nearby, Cedar Crest High School is about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Cedar Crest Middle School ranks 3rd of 5 nearby schools, at 48.9% versus a 42.1% average.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Small).
In 2020-21, Cedar Crest Middle School enrolled 1,213; in 2024-25, 1,224.
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Lebanon County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
144,186
Census ACS
Median income
$78,425
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
18,804 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cornwall-Lebanon SD
- Cedar Crest High SchoolHigh · 1,676 students
- South Lebanon Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cornwall Elementary SchoolElementary · 541 students
- Ebenezer Elementary SchoolElementary · 500 students
- Union Canal Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
Other schools in Lebanon
- Cedar Crest High SchoolHigh · 1,676 students
- Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,393 students
- Lebanon Junior High SchoolMiddle · 693 students
- Northwest Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Harding Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
- South Lebanon Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
Nearby schools
- Cedar Crest High School0.2 mi · 1,676
- Lebanon Junior High School1.2 mi · 693
- Lebanon SHS1.4 mi · 1,393
- Southeast Elementary School1.7 mi · 438
- South Lebanon Elementary School1.9 mi · 554
- Southwest Elementary School1.9 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Crest Middle SchoolHow many students attend Cedar Crest Middle School?
Cedar Crest Middle School enrolls approximately 1,224 students in grades 06-08.
Is Cedar Crest Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cedar Crest Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Cedar Crest Middle School have?
Cedar Crest Middle School employs 71 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Cedar Crest Middle School?
Student demographics at Cedar Crest Middle School are roughly 65% White, 22% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Cedar Crest Middle School in?
Cedar Crest Middle School is part of Cornwall-Lebanon SD.
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