J R Fugett MS

Set in West Chester, Pennsylvania, J R Fugett MS is a sizable middle-grades school, run under West Chester Area SD. It teaches 930 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so J R Fugett MS sits 57% above that benchmark.

West Chester Area SD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 11,987 students. J R Fugett MS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, J R Fugett MS logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Chester County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, J R Fugett MS has 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Chester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, J R Fugett MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of -14.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Chester County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. J R Fugett MS is one of 111 public schools in Chester County (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students).

West Chester East HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), J R Fugett MS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 69.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at J R Fugett MS has climbed 3%, going from 903 students in 2018 to 930 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 75% to 66%.

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