McConnellsburg 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 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 McConnellsburg MS
McConnellsburg MS operates as a very small middle school in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Central Fulton SD. Current enrollment sits at 213 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 64% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.
Within Central Fulton SD, which oversees 3 schools and 911 students, McConnellsburg MS is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, McConnellsburg MS logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Fulton County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, McConnellsburg MS reports 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. 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, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), McConnellsburg MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.3%; this one delivers 48.1%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,836, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. McConnellsburg MS is one of 8 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 1,958 students).
The closest other public school is McConnellsburg El Sch, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 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), McConnellsburg MS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.5%.
McConnellsburg MS operates from a countryside location.
Trend over the last 7 years. McConnellsburg MS's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 217 (now 213). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.
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