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If you could change one rule at Charles A Huston MS, what would it be?
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Enrollment
399
Middle
DISTRICT 418 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BURRELL SD·NCES 420453004339
Charles A Huston Middle School
1020 Puckety Church Rd, Lower Burrell, PA 15068 · (724) 334-1443 · Westmoreland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
170 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 129 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 121 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 149 | 37% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · 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
Charles A Huston Middle School→Burrell High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Burrell SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
43.9%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
24.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.9% | 24.2% |
| 2023-24 | 42.9% | 25.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
35.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Charles A Huston Middle School
Charles A Huston Middle School's state test result (35.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles A Huston Middle School this school | 399 | 42.6% | 35.3% |
| Grove City Area Middle School Grove City | 442 | 42.1% | 53.0% |
| Bedford Middle School Bedford | 414 | 45.2% | 50.5% |
| Deer Lakes Middle School Cheswick | 383 | 45.4% | 50.7% |
| Slippery Rock Area Middle School Slippery Rock | 404 | 39.4% | 62.6% |
| Pine Grove Area Middle School Pine Grove | 411 | 47.0% | 38.0% |
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 Charles A Huston Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Westmoreland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.3% | #383 of 479 | #17 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #381 of 513 ▼ 1 | #18 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #355 of 513 ▲ 42 | #16 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #373 of 522 | #14 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #277 of 486 | #8 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.5% | #414 of 486 | #11 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.6% | #326 of 510 | #12 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.9% | #173 of 332 | #7 of 11 |
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
399
-26 (-6%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 606
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 399 | 30 | 13.3:1 | 43% (170) |
| 2023-24 | 403 | 28.8 | 14.0:1 | 42% (170) |
| 2022-23 | 416 | 29.3 | 14.2:1 | 40% (165) |
| 2020-21 | 425 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 38% (162) |
| 2017-18 | 443 | 30.8 | 14.4:1 | 38% (168) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 31% (130) |
| 2010-11 | 462 | 30 | 15.4:1 | 26% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 545 | 39 | 14.0:1 | 17% (95) |
| 1990-91 | 606 | 43 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Charles A Huston Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (443 to 399); teachers down 3% (30.8 to 30).
About Charles A Huston Middle School
Federal records list Charles A Huston Middle School as a middle-grades school in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania. The school's 399 students are in grades 6 through 8. Statewide, middle schools in Pennsylvania average about 594 students each.
Burrell SD counts 4 schools and 1,671 students, including Charles A Huston Middle School.
At Charles A Huston Middle School, White students make up 91% of the student body. Other students are 4% multiracial and 3% Black. The county population is about 92% White, within a few points of the school. The chance that two students picked at random at Charles A Huston Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 17%.
The school has about 13.3 students per teacher and 30 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Pennsylvania average about 13.2:1, a similar figure. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Westmoreland County averages 53%, higher than here.
allk12 grades Charles A Huston Middle School a D. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Charles A Huston Middle School is -24.1 points, in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 35.3%, and the predicted rate is 59.3%.
Census estimates describe Westmoreland County this way: median household income is about $74,109, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 85 public schools in Westmoreland County, with a combined enrollment of about 41,302.
The closest other public school is Burrell High School, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Charles A Huston Middle School ranks 5th of 5 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 35.3% against a local average of 44.2%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The number of students declined from 425 to 399 over 4 years.
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Westmoreland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
352,500
Census ACS
Median income
$74,109
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
85
41,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Burrell SD
- Burrell High SchoolHigh · 566 students
- Bon Air Elementary SchoolElementary · 447 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolElementary · 259 students
Other schools in Lower Burrell
- Burrell High SchoolHigh · 566 students
- Bon Air Elementary SchoolElementary · 447 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolElementary · 259 students
Nearby schools
- Burrell High School0.3 mi · 566
- Bon Air Elementary School0.4 mi · 447
- Stewart Elementary School1.4 mi · 259
- Martin School2.6 mi · 147
- Highlands SHS2.9 mi · 665
- Highlands Early Childhood Center2.9 mi · 205
Frequently asked questions
About Charles A Huston Middle SchoolHow large is Charles A Huston Middle School?
Charles A Huston Middle School enrolls approximately 399 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Charles A Huston Middle School serve?
Charles A Huston Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Charles A Huston Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Charles A Huston Middle School is approximately 13.3:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Charles A Huston Middle School?
At Charles A Huston Middle School, the student body is approximately 91% White, 2% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Charles A Huston Middle School public or private?
Charles A Huston Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Burrell SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.