Daniel Boone Area MS

Daniel Boone Area MS operates as a mid-tier middle school in Douglassville, Pennsylvania, overseen by Daniel Boone Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 884 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 49% above the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Daniel Boone Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,864 students; Daniel Boone Area MS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Daniel Boone Area MS lists that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Daniel Boone Area MS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Daniel Boone Area MS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.8%.

In the surrounding community, Berks County reports that median household earnings sit near $79,777, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Daniel Boone Area MS is one.

Daniel Boone Area Intermediate Cntr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Daniel Boone Area MS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.0%.

Daniel Boone Area MS operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Daniel Boone Area MS's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 832 (now 884). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 83% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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