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Keith Valley MS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Keith Valley MS
Keith Valley MS operates as a sizable middle school in Horsham, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Hatboro-Horsham SD. Current enrollment sits at 966 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 63% bigger than typical.
Within Hatboro-Horsham SD, which oversees 6 schools and 4,179 students, Keith Valley MS is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Keith Valley MS shows that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% Black, 6% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Keith Valley MS has 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Keith Valley 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 55.8%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Keith Valley MS is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students).
The closest other public school is Blair Mill Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Keith Valley MS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 1,095 students in 2018 compared to 966 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 78% to 68%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.
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