Daniel Boone Area Middle School

Daniel Boone Area Middle School is a medium-sized middle school serving families in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. Its 884 students are spread across grades 5 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in Pennsylvania is about 594 students.

The Daniel Boone Area SD system has 4 schools and 2,864 students.

White students are the majority at Daniel Boone Area Middle School, with 74% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's diversity index is 43%, meaning two students picked at random have a 43% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Its teaching staff equals 79.1 full-time positions, a ratio of 11.2:1. That is lower than the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 45%. Compared with the 67% average for public schools in Berks County, the school's rate is lower.

allk12 grades Daniel Boone Area Middle School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.

BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Daniel Boone Area Middle School, the prediction is 58.4% and the result is 48.8%.

Berks County has about 433,015 residents, and the median household income is $79,777, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Besides Daniel Boone Area Middle School, Berks County has 94 other public schools.

The shortest distance from Daniel Boone Area Middle School to another public school is about 0.8 miles, to Daniel Boone Area Intermediate Cntr. Counting only straight-line distance, 6 other public schools are within five miles. Daniel Boone Area Middle School places 7th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.

Daniel Boone Area Middle School falls in the Rural: Fringe locale category, used for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.

Federal data show a 20% enrollment gain, from 736 in 2020-21 to 884 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.2:1, from 13.6:1.

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