Commodore Perry Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Commodore Perry Sch
Located at 3002 Perry Hwy, in Hadley, Pennsylvania, Commodore Perry Sch is a small primary school that serves 223 students (grades K through 6), part of Commodore Perry SD. Enrollment runs roughly 50% smaller than the state mean of about 443.
Commodore Perry SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 425 students; Commodore Perry Sch is among them.
Demographically, Commodore Perry Sch shows that nearly all students (96%) are White. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Commodore Perry Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 35.9%; actual is 55.9%, +20.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,976 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Commodore Perry Sch is one of 37 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 12,815 students).
The closest other public school is Commodore Perry JSHS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Commodore Perry Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Commodore Perry Sch has decreased 5%, going from 234 students in 2018 to 223 in 2025.
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