Everett Area 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 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Everett Area MS
As a tight-knit middle school in Everett, Pennsylvania, Everett Area MS instructs 358 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within Everett Area SD. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 40% leaner than typical.
Within Everett Area SD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,189 students, Everett Area MS is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Everett Area MS reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Bedford County's rate of about 65%.
After controlling for student poverty, Everett Area MS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 56.8%; this one comes in at 33.5%, -23.3 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bedford County) records that median household earnings sit near $59,992, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Bedford County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,951 students), Everett Area MS is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Everett Area HS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Everett Area MS. On composite proficiency, Everett Area MS comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. Everett Area MS's enrollment has climbed 26% since 2018, when it stood at 284 (now 358). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.
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