Intermediate Sch

Intermediate Sch is a junior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in Shillington, Pennsylvania, overseen by Governor Mifflin SD, works with 623 students in grades 5 through 6.

Governor Mifflin SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,154 students; Intermediate Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Intermediate Sch records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

In terms of school funding signals, Intermediate Sch logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Berks County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Intermediate Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Berks County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Berks County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), Intermediate Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mifflin Park El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Intermediate Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 663 students in 2018 compared to 623 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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