James W Parker MS

Located at 11781 Edinboro Rd, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, James W Parker MS is a middle-of-the-pack junior high that works with 652 students (grades 5 through 8), one of the schools within General McLane SD.

Across the 4 schools in General McLane SD (2,075 students total), James W Parker MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, James W Parker MS logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, James W Parker MS lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Erie County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, James W Parker MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.7%; this one delivers 64.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,354, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Erie County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students), James W Parker MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: General McLane HS, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), James W Parker MS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.4%.

James W Parker MS operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at James W Parker MS has fell 5%, going from 688 students in 2018 to 652 in 2025.

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