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Holland MS
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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%.
About Holland MS
Holland MS is a junior high of substantial scale in Holland, Pennsylvania, part of Council Rock SD, caters to 960 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 62% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.
Council Rock SD comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 10,391 students; Holland MS is among them.
In terms of who attends, Holland MS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 8% Asian, 3% Hispanic.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Holland MS higher than the state norm the norm. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Bucks County's rate of about 40%.
With demographic context factored in, Holland MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.0%; this one delivers 60.5%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bucks County indicate median household income runs about $114,764, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Bucks County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), of which Holland MS is one.
Nearest neighbor: Hillcrest El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Holland MS. On composite proficiency, Holland MS comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 68.4%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
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