Haine MS

Located at 1516 Haine School Road, in Cranberry Twp, Pennsylvania, Haine MS is a middle-of-the-pack middle school that caters to 522 students (grades 5 through 6), one of the schools within Seneca Valley SD.

Within Seneca Valley SD, which oversees 8 schools and 7,439 students, Haine MS is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Haine MS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Haine MS has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Butler County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Haine MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.0%, the actual is 66.5%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Butler County shows median household income runs about $89,843, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Butler County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students), of which Haine MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Haine El Sch, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Haine MS. On composite proficiency, Haine MS comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Haine MS's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 588 (now 522). White enrollment moved from 89% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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