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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Indian Crest MS this year?
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Enrollment
607
Middle
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUDERTON AREA SD·NCES 422187004721
Indian Crest Middle School
139 Harleysville Pike, Souderton, PA 18964 · (215) 723-9193 · Montgomery County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL607 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
9.6:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
260 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 | 196 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 216 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 195 | 32% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
Indian Crest Middle School→Souderton Area High School
Based on grade levels within Souderton Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
51.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.4pp since 2023
Math
32.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 55.4% | 36.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Indian Crest Middle School
Indian Crest Middle School's state test result (46.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Crest Middle School this school | 607 | 42.8% | 46.0% |
| Sinking Springs Elementary School York | 641 | 41.5% | 61.7% |
| Klinger Middle School Southampton | 599 | 46.9% | 51.0% |
| York Suburban Middle School York | 743 | 44.5% | 56.5% |
| Sandburg Middle School Levittown | 729 | 36.6% | 43.4% |
| Shallow Brook Inter School Manchester | 507 | 45.8% | 54.1% |
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 Indian Crest Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #270 of 479 | #27 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #302 of 513 ▼ 55 | #29 of 33 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #265 of 513 ▲ 4 | #27 of 33 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 607 | #230 of 522 | #30 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #16 of 486 | #1 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.2% | #155 of 486 | #24 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.8% | #324 of 510 | #11 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.2% | #131 of 332 | #8 of 21 |
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
607
-144 (-19%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 635
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 607 | 63.1 | 9.6:1 | 43% (260) |
| 2023-24 | 623 | 61.5 | 10.1:1 | 42% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 678 | 60.3 | 11.2:1 | 35% (235) |
| 2020-21 | 751 | 64 | 11.7:1 | 36% (272) |
| 2017-18 | 699 | 60.8 | 11.5:1 | 33% (232) |
| 2015-16 | 803 | 63 | 12.8:1 | 28% (225) |
| 2010-11 | 798 | 65 | 12.3:1 | 19% (148) |
| 2000-01 | 1,036 | 60 | 17.3:1 | 6% (59) |
| 1990-91 | 635 | 43 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Indian Crest Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (699 to 607); teachers up 4% (60.8 to 63.1).
About Indian Crest Middle School
Indian Crest Middle School sits in Souderton, Pennsylvania, and is classified as a middle-grades school. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 607 students on the rolls.
The 9 schools of Souderton Area SD, including Indian Crest Middle School, enroll 5,974 students.
White students are 68% of those enrolled at Indian Crest Middle School. Next come 16% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% Black, and 2% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
Staffing at Indian Crest Middle School comes to 63.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.6:1. Middle schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.2:1. On the income side, 43% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Indian Crest Middle School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 35% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Indian Crest Middle School is 13.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools.
For Montgomery County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $113,915 a year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Counting Indian Crest Middle School, Montgomery County has 160 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Indian Crest Middle School is closest to Souderton CS Collaborative, about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Indian Crest Middle School is 8th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The school's student count decreased 19% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 11.7:1 to 9.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Indian Crest Middle School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
867,573
Census ACS
Median income
$113,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
115,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Souderton Area SD
- Souderton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,121 students
- Indian Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Vernfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 517 students
- Salford Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Franconia Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
- Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 420 students
Other schools in Souderton
- Souderton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,121 students
- Franconia Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
- West Broad Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 378 students
- E M Crouthamel Elementary SchoolElementary · 325 students
- Souderton CS CollaborativeElementary · 250 students
Nearby schools
- Souderton CS Collaborative0.9 mi · 250
- Franconia Elementary School0.9 mi · 426
- West Broad Street Elementary School1.2 mi · 378
- E M Crouthamel Elementary School1.3 mi · 325
- Souderton Area High School1.7 mi · 2,121
- Sellersville Elementary School2.7 mi · 292
Frequently asked questions
About Indian Crest Middle SchoolHow many students attend Indian Crest Middle School?
Indian Crest Middle School enrolls approximately 607 students in grades 06-08.
Is Indian Crest Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Indian Crest Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Indian Crest Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Indian Crest Middle School is approximately 9.6:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Indian Crest Middle School?
Student demographics at Indian Crest Middle School are roughly 68% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Indian Crest Middle School public or private?
Indian Crest Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Souderton Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.