Delaware Valley Middle School

Delaware Valley Middle School operates as a compact junior high in Milford, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Delaware Valley SD. Current enrollment sits at 466 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 594.

Delaware Valley SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,248 students; Delaware Valley Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Delaware Valley Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Delaware Valley Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pike County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Delaware Valley Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.9%; this one delivers 53.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pike County put the typical household earns roughly $81,323 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Pike County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,615 students), Delaware Valley Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Delaware Valley HS, around 0.1 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Delaware Valley Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.7%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 497 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 83% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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