Maple Avenue MS

Maple Avenue MS, a close-knit middle school in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, run under Littlestown Area SD, hosts 413 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 30% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Littlestown Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,691 students; Maple Avenue MS is among them.

Demographically, Maple Avenue MS logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Adams County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Maple Avenue MS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.3%; actual is 37.7%, a gap of -23.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Adams County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $84,092 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Maple Avenue MS is one of 26 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students).

Littlestown SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maple Avenue MS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.7%.

Maple Avenue MS operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Maple Avenue MS's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 481 (now 413). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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