Millersburg Area Middle School
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 65% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Millersburg Area Middle School
As a minimally staffed 6-8 campus in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, Millersburg Area Middle School works with 211 students from grades 5 through 8, overseen by Millersburg Area SD. That puts it 64% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.
Within Millersburg Area SD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,029 students, Millersburg Area Middle School is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Millersburg Area Middle School logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dauphin County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Millersburg Area Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 65.2%; Millersburg Area Middle School posts 46.0%, -19.2 points below that line.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Dauphin County put median household income runs about $76,242, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dauphin County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), of which Millersburg Area Middle School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Millersburg Area High School, around 0.0 miles off. 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), Millersburg Area Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 49.2%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Five-year trend. Millersburg Area Middle School's enrollment has climbed 17% since 2018, when it stood at 181 (now 211). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.
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