Freeport Area MS

Set in Sarver, Pennsylvania, Freeport Area MS is a cozy middle school, run under Freeport Area SD. It educates 428 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Freeport Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,725 students; Freeport Area MS is among them.

Demographically, Freeport Area MS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).

On the resource side, On paper, Freeport Area MS has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Freeport Area MS higher than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Freeport Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Butler County) records that the typical household earns roughly $89,843 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Butler County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students), Freeport Area MS is one campus in the mix.

Freeport Area SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Freeport Area MS. On composite proficiency, Freeport Area MS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 448 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.