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Enrollment
538
Middle
DISTRICT 382 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH FORWARD SD·NCES 420909004804
Elizabeth Forward Middle School
401 Rock Run Road, Elizabeth, PA 15037 · (412) 896-2335 · Allegheny County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL538 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% 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.
- B-Beats 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
12.8:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
220 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 184 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 173 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 181 | 34% |
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · 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
Elizabeth Forward Middle School→Elizabeth Forward SHS
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Elizabeth Forward SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
56.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.1pp since 2023
Math
40.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 down about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.6% | 40.1% |
| 2023-24 | 58.7% | 45.3% |
% 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
52.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Elizabeth Forward Middle School
Elizabeth Forward Middle School's state test result (52.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Forward Middle School this school | 538 | 40.9% | 52.4% |
| Big Spring Middle School Newville | 550 | 42.0% | 52.1% |
| Shaler Area Middle School Glenshaw | 589 | 41.1% | 47.2% |
| Grove City Area Middle School Grove City | 442 | 42.1% | 53.0% |
| Blue Mountain Middle School Orwigsburg | 561 | 39.6% | 46.0% |
| Hopewell Junior High School Aliquippa | 657 | 43.1% | 48.0% |
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 Elizabeth Forward Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.4% | #183 of 479 | #26 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #213 of 513 ▼ 60 | #28 of 51 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.6% | #188 of 513 ▲ 39 | #26 of 51 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 538 | #276 of 522 | #32 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #230 of 486 | #30 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.2% | #386 of 486 | #44 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.9% | #334 of 510 | #25 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.4% | #326 of 332 | #27 of 27 |
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
538
-29 (-5%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 645
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 538 | 42.2 | 12.8:1 | 41% (220) |
| 2023-24 | 541 | 42 | 12.9:1 | 41% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 550 | 42.6 | 12.9:1 | 44% (241) |
| 2020-21 | 567 | 41 | 13.8:1 | 37% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 540 | 40.1 | 13.5:1 | 38% (207) |
| 2015-16 | 506 | 41 | 12.3:1 | 36% (183) |
| 2010-11 | 558 | 45 | 12.4:1 | 29% (164) |
| 2000-01 | 738 | 45 | 16.4:1 | 24% (174) |
| 1990-91 | 645 | 42 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Elizabeth Forward Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (540 to 538); teachers up 5% (40.1 to 42.2).
About Elizabeth Forward Middle School
Elizabeth Forward Middle School is a middle school in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, according to federal school records. The school's enrollment of 538 students covers grades 6 through 8.
Elizabeth Forward Middle School is run by Elizabeth Forward SD, whose 6 schools enroll 2,293 students.
Federal enrollment data show Elizabeth Forward Middle School is 89% White. After that, the student body is 6% multiracial and 4% Black. Among all residents of Allegheny County, the White share is about 76%. Pick two students at random and there is a 20% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Elizabeth Forward Middle School is 42.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.8:1. That matches the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania fairly closely. About 41% of students, or 220, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 54% average among public schools in Allegheny County.
Elizabeth Forward Middle School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 58% of Pennsylvania public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Pennsylvania schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Elizabeth Forward Middle School's results are 7.7 points below predicted: 52.4% against 60.1%.
Allegheny County has about 1,238,177 residents, and the median household income is $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Elizabeth Forward Middle School, Allegheny County has 276 other public schools.
The closest public school to Elizabeth Forward Middle School is Central Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. Elizabeth Forward Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Elizabeth Forward Middle School comes in 4th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 29 students since 2020-21, to 538. By 2024-25, the school had 12.8 students per teacher, compared with 13.8 in 2020-21.
If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Elizabeth Forward Middle School, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elizabeth Forward SD
- Elizabeth Forward SHSHigh · 763 students
- William Penn Elementary SchoolElementary · 333 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 292 students
- Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolElementary · 194 students
- Greenock Elementary SchoolElementary · 173 students
Other schools in Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Forward SHSHigh · 763 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 292 students
Nearby schools
- Central Elementary School0.1 mi · 292
- Mt Vernon Elementary School1.4 mi · 194
- Elizabeth Forward SHS2.1 mi · 763
- Young Scholars of Greater Allegheny CS2.8 mi · 316
- Greenock Elementary School2.9 mi · 173
- Clairton Elementary School3.5 mi · 348
Frequently asked questions
About Elizabeth Forward Middle SchoolHow large is Elizabeth Forward Middle School?
Elizabeth Forward Middle School enrolls approximately 538 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Elizabeth Forward Middle School serve?
Elizabeth Forward Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Elizabeth Forward Middle School have?
Elizabeth Forward Middle School employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Elizabeth Forward Middle School?
Student demographics at Elizabeth Forward Middle School are roughly 89% White, 1% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Elizabeth Forward Middle School in?
Elizabeth Forward Middle School is part of Elizabeth Forward SD.
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