Frazier 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 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% 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 Frazier MS
Frazier MS operates as a minimally staffed intermediate school in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Frazier SD. Current enrollment sits at 221 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 63% smaller than the state mean of about 594.
Frazier MS is one of 3 schools operated by Frazier SD, a district that teaches 955 students overall.
Demographically, Frazier MS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school records 3% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Frazier MS has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fayette County (around 92%), the school's rate is south of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Frazier MS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.5%; this one comes in at 36.4%, -17.1 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, census data for Fayette County shows median household income runs about $58,236, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fayette County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students), of which Frazier MS is one.
Frazier El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Frazier MS comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Frazier MS has shrank 11%, going from 249 students in 2018 to 221 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.
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