Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch

Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch, a medium-sized elementary school in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Mifflinburg Area SD, educates 381 students, covering grades 3 through 5.

Mifflinburg Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,701 students; Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Union County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 35.1%; actual is 59.8%, +24.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, census data for Union County shows median household income runs about $76,404, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Union County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,811 students), of which Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch is one.

Mifflinburg El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 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), Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 67.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mifflinburg Area Intrmd Sch has contracted 8%, going from 416 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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