Mifflin Co MS

Mifflin Co MS is one of the medium-sized 6-8 campuss in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, overseen by Mifflin County SD, with 733 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 7. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Mifflin Co MS sits 23% larger than that benchmark.

Within Mifflin County SD, which oversees 9 schools and 4,491 students, Mifflin Co MS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mifflin Co MS lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 74% of students at Mifflin Co MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Mifflin Co MS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.0%; Mifflin Co MS posts 28.4%, -17.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Mifflin County put the typical household earns roughly $63,953 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Mifflin County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,774 students), of which Mifflin Co MS is one.

The closest other public school is Lewistown El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mifflin Co MS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mifflin Co MS's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 773 (now 733).

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