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Middleburg El Sch
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Middleburg El Sch
Middleburg El Sch, a reasonably sized primary school in Middleburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Midd-West SD, enrolls 551 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.
Across the 4 schools in Midd-West SD (1,907 students total), Middleburg El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Middleburg El Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder comes out to 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Snyder County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 102% of students at Middleburg El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Snyder County's rate of about 73%.
After controlling for student poverty, Middleburg El Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.9%; actual is 55.3%, +21.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, census data for Snyder County shows median household earnings sit near $66,876, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Snyder County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,190 students), of which Middleburg El Sch is one.
Midd-West MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Middleburg El Sch comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.
Middleburg El Sch operates from a countryside location.
Five-year trend. Middleburg El Sch's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 593 (now 551). Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.
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