Line Mountain MS

Set in Herndon, Pennsylvania, Line Mountain MS is a tight-knit 6-8 campus, part of Line Mountain SD. It educates 319 students across grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 46% leaner than typical.

Line Mountain MS is one of 3 schools operated by Line Mountain SD, a district that caters to 985 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Line Mountain MS records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Northumberland County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Line Mountain MS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 56.2%; this one comes in at 36.7%, -19.5 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Northumberland County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,583, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Northumberland County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,386 students), Line Mountain MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Line Mountain HS, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Line Mountain MS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Line Mountain MS's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 319). Class-load math has grew: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.