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Enrollment
751
Middle
DISTRICT 868 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARTIERS VALLEY SD·NCES 420570000094
Chartiers Valley Middle School
50 Thoms Run Rd, Bridgeville, PA 15017 · (412) 429-2223 · Allegheny County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL751 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.7:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
327 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 259 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 257 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 235 | 31% |
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
Chartiers Valley Middle School→Chartiers Valley High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Chartiers Valley SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
57.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
38.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.9pp 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 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.5% | 38.3% |
| 2023-24 | 60.4% | 31.4% |
% 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
48.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Chartiers Valley Middle School
Chartiers Valley Middle School's state test result (48.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chartiers Valley Middle School this school | 751 | 43.5% | 48.3% |
| Poquessing Middle School Feasterville Trevose | 966 | 45.1% | 45.6% |
| William Penn Middle School Yardley | 904 | 35.8% | 55.0% |
| Central Dauphin Middle School Harrisburg | 834 | 36.7% | 52.9% |
| Klinger Middle School Southampton | 599 | 46.9% | 51.0% |
| Sandburg Middle School Levittown | 729 | 36.6% | 43.4% |
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 Chartiers Valley Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #239 of 479 | #30 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #239 of 513 ▲ 79 | #31 of 51 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #171 of 513 ▲ 31 | #25 of 51 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 751 | #146 of 522 | #12 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #214 of 486 | #26 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.7% | #251 of 486 | #25 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.5% | #316 of 510 | #22 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.6% | #101 of 131 | #12 of 18 |
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
751
+61 (+9%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 613
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 751 | 59.4 | 12.7:1 | 44% (327) |
| 2023-24 | 787 | 58.2 | 13.5:1 | 42% (327) |
| 2022-23 | 718 | 58.8 | 12.2:1 | 35% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 690 | 64 | 10.8:1 | 31% (217) |
| 2017-18 | 732 | 60.9 | 12.0:1 | 34% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 724 | 61 | 11.9:1 | 32% (230) |
| 2010-11 | 775 | 60 | 12.9:1 | 28% (214) |
| 2000-01 | 784 | 54 | 14.5:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 613 | 38 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chartiers Valley Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (732 to 751); teachers down 2% (60.9 to 59.4).
About Chartiers Valley Middle School
Chartiers Valley Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. The school serves grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 751 students. Middle schools in Pennsylvania have about 594 students on average; enrollment here is 26% higher.
Chartiers Valley Middle School is one of the 4 schools that make up Chartiers Valley SD (3,473 students in total).
More than half of enrollment at Chartiers Valley Middle School is White: 77%. The next largest groups are 9% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Black. In Allegheny County overall, the White share is about 76%. The diversity index for Chartiers Valley Middle School is 39%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Chartiers Valley Middle School reported 59.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 12.7:1. The 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania is close to this figure. There are 327 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 44% of enrollment. The gap from the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County is 10 points.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Chartiers Valley Middle School outscored 42%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Pennsylvania with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 58.9%. Chartiers Valley Middle School scores 48.3%.
In Allegheny County, home to about 1,238,177 people, the median household earns about $78,548 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Allegheny County's 277 public schools enroll about 141,392 students and include Chartiers Valley Middle School.
Chartiers Valley High School, about 0.1 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Chartiers Valley Middle School is 7th on average proficiency.
Chartiers Valley Middle School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 9% rise, from 690 to 751. The ratio of students to teachers went from 10.8:1 to 12.7:1 over the same years.
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Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chartiers Valley SD
- Chartiers Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,029 students
- Chartiers Valley Primary SchoolElementary · 892 students
- Chartiers Valley Intrmd SchoolElementary · 801 students
Other schools in Bridgeville
- Chartiers Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,029 students
- Chartiers Valley Primary SchoolElementary · 892 students
Nearby schools
- Chartiers Valley High School0.1 mi · 1,029
- Chartiers Valley Primary School0.4 mi · 892
- Chartiers Valley Intrmd School1.6 mi · 801
- Hoover Elementary School1.7 mi · 285
- Carnegie Elementary School1.8 mi · 408
- Jefferson Middle School2.1 mi · 621
Frequently asked questions
About Chartiers Valley Middle SchoolHow many students attend Chartiers Valley Middle School?
Chartiers Valley Middle School enrolls approximately 751 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Chartiers Valley Middle School serve?
Chartiers Valley Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Chartiers Valley Middle School?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at Chartiers Valley Middle School.
How diverse is Chartiers Valley Middle School?
Chartiers Valley Middle School reports a student body of 77% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Chartiers Valley Middle School?
Chartiers Valley Middle School is overseen by Chartiers Valley SD in Allegheny County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.