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Eagle View MS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Eagle View MS
Eagle View MS is a junior high of roomy scale in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Cumberland Valley SD, teacheing 1,111 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 87% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.
Cumberland Valley SD comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 10,374 students; Eagle View MS is among them.
Demographically, Eagle View MS lists that 60% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 24% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at Eagle View MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Eagle View MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 68.7%, a residual of +3.5 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cumberland County) logs that median household income runs about $87,494, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cumberland County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), Eagle View MS is one campus in the mix.
Silver Spring El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eagle View MS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eagle View MS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 70.0%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 8%: 1,028 students in 2018 compared to 1,111 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 77% to 60% over that span.
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Cumberland County at a glance
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