Meadville MS

Meadville MS is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in Meadville, Pennsylvania, part of Crawford Central SD, with 340 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Meadville MS sits 43% below that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in Crawford Central SD (2,993 students total), Meadville MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Meadville MS records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 9% multiracial, 6% Black, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Crawford County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Meadville MS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Crawford County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meadville MS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.5%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Crawford County put the typical household earns roughly $60,476 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Meadville MS is one of 26 public schools in Crawford County (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students).

Meadville Area SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Meadville MS comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 340 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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