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What's the most underrated thing about Dingman-Delaware MS that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
532
Middle
DISTRICT 499 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DELAWARE VALLEY SD·NCES 420753000132
Dingman-Delaware Middle School
1365 Route 739, Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328 · (570) 296-3140 · Pike County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL532 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
256 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 177 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 183 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 172 | 32% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Dingman-Delaware Middle School→Delaware Valley High School
Based on grade levels within Delaware Valley SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
55.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.8pp since 2023
Math
37.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.6% | 37.9% |
| 2023-24 | 68.4% | 39.3% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Dingman-Delaware Middle School
Dingman-Delaware Middle School's state test result (52.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dingman-Delaware Middle School this school | 532 | 48.1% | 52.7% |
| New Oxford Middle School New Oxford | 567 | 49.2% | 51.5% |
| Gettysburg Area Middle School Gettysburg | 646 | 49.5% | 59.3% |
| Ephrata Intermediate School Ephrata | 568 | 53.3% | 47.4% |
| Bermudian Springs Middle School York Springs | 539 | 44.0% | 46.3% |
| Delaware Valley Middle School Milford | 466 | 43.6% | 53.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Dingman-Delaware Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #181 of 479 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #244 of 513 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #204 of 513 ▼ 98 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 532 | #280 of 522 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #222 of 486 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.8% | #236 of 486 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.1% | #278 of 510 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.8% | #232 of 332 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
532
+11 (+2%) vs 2020
-20% since 2000-01, when it was 663
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 532 | 41.8 | 12.7:1 | 48% (256) |
| 2023-24 | 524 | 41.3 | 12.7:1 | 49% (256) |
| 2022-23 | 524 | 40.5 | 12.9:1 | 45% (237) |
| 2020-21 | 521 | 38 | 13.7:1 | 44% (228) |
| 2017-18 | 571 | 40.7 | 14.0:1 | 36% (203) |
| 2015-16 | 618 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 32% (200) |
| 2010-11 | 641 | 45 | 14.2:1 | 33% (214) |
| 2000-01 | 663 | 40 | 16.6:1 | 14% (95) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dingman-Delaware Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (571 to 532); teachers up 3% (40.7 to 41.8).
About Dingman-Delaware Middle School
Dingman-Delaware Middle School, a medium-sized middle school, is located in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania. The school reports 532 students in grades 6 through 8.
Dingman-Delaware Middle School reports to Delaware Valley SD, which has 7 schools and 4,248 students.
White students are the majority at Dingman-Delaware Middle School, with 76% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. County-wide, about 79% of residents are White. Dingman-Delaware Middle School's diversity index is 40%, against a US figure of 70%.
The count of teachers at Dingman-Delaware Middle School is 41.8 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 12.7:1. That is close to the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. The school counts 256 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 48%. For comparison, public schools in Pike County average 63%.
Dingman-Delaware Middle School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 64% of Pennsylvania public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In Pennsylvania, Dingman-Delaware Middle School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 52.7% actual against a predicted 57.0%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Pike County show that the median household income is $81,323, roughly 30% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Dingman-Delaware Middle School is one of 14 public schools in the county.
Dingman-Delaware Elementary School is located about 0.1 miles from Dingman-Delaware Middle School. The five-mile area around Dingman-Delaware Middle School holds 2 other public schools. The school's 52.7% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 8 nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Dingman-Delaware Middle School is Rural: Distant.
Dingman-Delaware Middle School had 521 students in 2020-21 and 532 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Pike County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
60,621
Census ACS
Median income
$81,323
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
14
8,615 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Delaware Valley SD
- Delaware Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,380 students
- Dingman-Delaware Primary SchoolElementary · 493 students
- Delaware Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 486 students
- Dingman-Delaware Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Delaware Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 466 students
- Shohola Elementary SchoolElementary · 421 students
Other schools in Dingmans Ferry
- East Stroudsburg SHS NorthHigh · 917 students
- Lehman Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 540 students
- Dingman-Delaware Primary SchoolElementary · 493 students
- Dingman-Delaware Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Bushkill Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
Nearby schools
- Dingman-Delaware Elementary School0.1 mi · 470
- Dingman-Delaware Primary School0.2 mi · 493
- Shohola Elementary School6.8 mi · 421
- Montague Township School8.4 mi · 329
- East Stroudsburg SHS North8.4 mi · 917
- Lehman Intermediate School8.5 mi · 540
Frequently asked questions
About Dingman-Delaware Middle SchoolHow many students attend Dingman-Delaware Middle School?
Dingman-Delaware Middle School enrolls approximately 532 students in grades 06-08.
Is Dingman-Delaware Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dingman-Delaware Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dingman-Delaware Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dingman-Delaware Middle School is approximately 12.7:1 (42 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Dingman-Delaware Middle School?
Dingman-Delaware Middle School reports a student body of 76% White, 15% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Dingman-Delaware Middle School?
Dingman-Delaware Middle School is overseen by Delaware Valley SD in Pike County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.