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Enrollment
704
Middle
DISTRICT 831 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALLENTOWN CITY SD·NCES 420228002791
Harrison-Morton Middle School
137 N 2nd St, Allentown, PA 18101 · (484) 765-5701 · Lehigh County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL704 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.5:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
667 students
DISTRICT 102% · 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 | 262 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 204 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 238 | 34% |
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
14.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.3pp since 2023
Math
7.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.5% | 7.5% |
| 2023-24 | 19.8% | 4.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
12.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% 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.
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 Harrison-Morton Middle School
Harrison-Morton Middle School's state test result (12.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison-Morton Middle School this school | 704 | 94.7% | 12.6% |
| South Mountain Middle School Allentown | 972 | 99.4% | 17.1% |
| John B Stetson Middle School Philadelphia | 560 | 99.1% | 7.4% |
| Broughal Middle School Bethlehem | 520 | 85.4% | 14.2% |
| Jackson Middle School Lancaster | 524 | 84.5% | 15.8% |
| Muhlenberg Jr High School Reading | 1,016 | 99.0% | 27.5% |
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 Harrison-Morton Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.6% | #468 of 479 | #15 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.5% | #480 of 513 ▲ 14 | #14 of 17 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #498 of 513 ▼ 4 | #15 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 704 | #167 of 522 | #10 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #295 of 486 | #9 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.3% | #208 of 486 | #11 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.7% | #140 of 510 | #7 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #235 of 332 | #8 of 11 |
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
704
-137 (-16%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 789
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 704 | 52 | 13.5:1 | 95% (667) |
| 2023-24 | 667 | 53.4 | 12.5:1 | 100% (667) |
| 2022-23 | 733 | 57 | 12.9:1 | 100% (733) |
| 2020-21 | 841 | 55 | 15.3:1 | 100% (838) |
| 2017-18 | 753 | 52.5 | 14.3:1 | 100% (753) |
| 2015-16 | 795 | 51 | 15.6:1 | 73% (582) |
| 2010-11 | 889 | 66 | 13.5:1 | 93% (828) |
| 2000-01 | 887 | 40 | 22.2:1 | 78% (696) |
| 1990-91 | 789 | 58 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harrison-Morton Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (753 to 704); teachers down 1% (52.5 to 52).
About Harrison-Morton Middle School
Harrison-Morton Middle School is the name of a mid-sized middle school in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Enrollment stands at 704 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
District-wide, Allentown City SD has 23 schools and 16,674 students.
The largest group at Harrison-Morton Middle School is Hispanic students, at 74%. Other groups make up 11% Black, 7% White, and 7% multiracial. County-wide, 28% of Lehigh County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for Harrison-Morton Middle School is 43%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 52 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1. It is about the same as the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 95%. That rate is above the 70% average among public schools in Lehigh County.
Harrison-Morton Middle School holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 3% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations places Harrison-Morton Middle School in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 24.4 points below it (12.6% actual, 37.0% predicted).
For Lehigh County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $80,079 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Harrison-Morton Middle School, Lehigh County has 83 public schools.
Sheridan Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Harrison-Morton Middle School ranks 9th of 9 on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Harrison-Morton Middle School inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (City: Mid-size).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Harrison-Morton Middle School had a net loss of 137 students, or 16%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.3:1 in 2020-21, and 13.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Allentown City SD
- William Allen High SchoolHigh · 3,074 students
- Louis E Dieruff High SchoolHigh · 1,914 students
- South Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 972 students
- Francis D Raub Middle SchoolMiddle · 876 students
- Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Trexler Middle SchoolMiddle · 771 students
Other schools in Allentown
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 3,279 students
- William Allen High SchoolHigh · 3,074 students
- Louis E Dieruff High SchoolHigh · 1,914 students
- Executive Education Academy CSCombined · 1,497 students
- Springhouse Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
- Lincoln Leadership Academy CSCombined · 973 students
Nearby schools
- Sheridan Elementary School0.4 mi · 591
- Roberto Clemente CS0.5 mi · 619
- Arts Academy Elementary CS0.7 mi · 425
- Building 21 Allentown0.7 mi · 415
- Mosser Elementary School0.8 mi · 551
- Central Elementary School0.9 mi · 694
Frequently asked questions
About Harrison-Morton Middle SchoolHow many students attend Harrison-Morton Middle School?
Harrison-Morton Middle School enrolls approximately 704 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Harrison-Morton Middle School serve?
Harrison-Morton Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Harrison-Morton Middle School?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at Harrison-Morton Middle School.
How diverse is Harrison-Morton Middle School?
Harrison-Morton Middle School reports a student body of 7% White, 74% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Harrison-Morton Middle School?
Harrison-Morton Middle School is overseen by Allentown City SD in Lehigh County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.