Gettysburg Area MS

As a mid-sized middle-grades school in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg Area MS enrolls 646 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Gettysburg Area SD.

Gettysburg Area SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,782 students. Gettysburg Area MS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Gettysburg Area MS reports that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

In terms of school funding signals, Gettysburg Area MS shows 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Gettysburg Area MS tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 50% of students at Gettysburg Area MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Gettysburg Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 59.3%, a residual of +2.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Adams County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,092 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Adams County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students), Gettysburg Area MS is one campus in the mix.

Lincoln El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Gettysburg Area MS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gettysburg Area MS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.1%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 751 students in 2018 compared to 646 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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