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Enrollment
1,086
Middle
DISTRICT 885 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARNET VALLEY SD·NCES 421059010013
Garnet Valley Middle School
601 Smithbridge Rd, Glen Mills, PA 19342 · (610) 579-5100 · Delaware County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,086 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- ATest 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
11.5:1
94 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
145 students
DISTRICT 14% · 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 | 358 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 351 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 377 | 35% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
Garnet Valley Middle School→Garnet Valley High School
Based on grade levels within Garnet Valley SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
77.9%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
64.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +7.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.9% | 64.5% |
| 2023-24 | 75.7% | 57.3% |
% 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
70.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Garnet Valley Middle School
Garnet Valley Middle School's state test result (70.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garnet Valley Middle School this school | 1,086 | 13.4% | 70.1% |
| Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center Downingtown | 1,066 | 15.2% | 66.2% |
| South Fayette Middle School McDonald | 859 | 14.1% | 76.6% |
| Unami Middle School Chalfont | 784 | 9.2% | 71.0% |
| Pennbrook Middle School North Wales | 767 | 22.6% | 64.6% |
| Eagle View Middle School Mechanicsburg | 1,111 | 28.8% | 68.7% |
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 Garnet Valley Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #41 of 479 | #6 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #35 of 513 ▲ 23 | #3 of 14 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.9% | #24 of 513 ▲ 27 | #5 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,086 | #32 of 522 | #5 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #91 of 486 | #4 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #156 of 486 | #5 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.4% | #493 of 510 | #14 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #281 of 332 | #7 of 9 |
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
1,086
-54 (-5%) vs 2020
+35% since 2000-01, when it was 807
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 1,086 | 94.2 | 11.5:1 | 13% (145) |
| 2023-24 | 1,078 | 94.3 | 11.4:1 | 13% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 1,067 | 95 | 11.2:1 | 11% (116) |
| 2020-21 | 1,140 | 93 | 12.3:1 | 9% (107) |
| 2017-18 | 1,127 | 93.2 | 12.1:1 | 9% (105) |
| 2015-16 | 1,191 | 98 | 12.2:1 | 9% (113) |
| 2010-11 | 1,161 | 90 | 12.9:1 | 7% (79) |
| 2000-01 | 807 | 62 | 13.0:1 | 1% (10) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Garnet Valley Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (1,127 to 1,086); teachers up 1% (93.2 to 94.2).
About Garnet Valley Middle School
A large middle-grades school in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, Garnet Valley Middle School is part of Garnet Valley SD. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,086 students. By comparison, middle schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 594 students on average.
Within Garnet Valley SD, Garnet Valley Middle School is one of 5 schools. The district enrolls 4,425 students.
More than half of the students at Garnet Valley Middle School are White (66%). The remaining shares are 23% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. That is in line with Delaware County, where about 63% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Garnet Valley Middle School scores 50%.
Garnet Valley Middle School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1, with 94.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Pennsylvania, 13.2:1, is higher. Roughly 13% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Delaware County, the average eligibility rate is 58%.
On the allk12 Grade, Garnet Valley Middle School lands at A, ahead of 88% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Garnet Valley Middle School, the prediction is 71.9% and the result is 70.1%.
In Delaware County, home to about 579,222 people, the median household earns about $89,546 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Garnet Valley Middle School shares Delaware County with 112 other public schools.
Garnet Valley Middle School's closest public school neighbor is Garnet Valley Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Garnet Valley Middle School ranks 4th of 4 nearby schools, at 70.1% versus a 76.9% average.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 5% decrease, from 1,140 to 1,086.
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Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garnet Valley SD
- Garnet Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,485 students
- Garnet Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 700 students
- Concord Elementary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Bethel Springs Elementary SchoolElementary · 537 students
Other schools in Glen Mills
- Garnet Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,485 students
- Garnet Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 700 students
- Concord Elementary SchoolElementary · 617 students
Nearby schools
- Garnet Valley Elementary School0.1 mi · 700
- Concord Elementary School0.3 mi · 617
- Garnet Valley High School0.6 mi · 1,485
- Bethel Springs Elementary School2.2 mi · 537
- Concord High School2.7 mi · 994
- Delaware County Technical High School - Aston3.3 mi · 80
Frequently asked questions
About Garnet Valley Middle SchoolHow many students attend Garnet Valley Middle School?
Garnet Valley Middle School enrolls approximately 1,086 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Garnet Valley Middle School serve?
Garnet Valley Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Garnet Valley Middle School have?
Garnet Valley Middle School employs 94 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Garnet Valley Middle School?
Student demographics at Garnet Valley Middle School are roughly 66% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 23% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Garnet Valley Middle School?
Garnet Valley Middle School is overseen by Garnet Valley SD in Delaware County.
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