Connellsville Area MS

Connellsville Area MS operates as a reasonably sized middle school in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, run under Connellsville Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 866 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 46% above the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Connellsville Area SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,328 students; Connellsville Area MS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Connellsville Area MS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Fayette County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 108% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Fayette County's rate of about 92%.

In the broader community, census data for Fayette County shows median household income runs about $58,236, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Fayette County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students), Connellsville Area MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Connellsville Area Career & Technical Center, roughly 0.2 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Connellsville Area MS operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Connellsville Area MS's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,019 (now 866). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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