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Morrisville HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Morrisville HS
As a cozy senior high in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, Morrisville HS works with 405 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Morrisville Borough SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Morrisville HS sits 45% below that benchmark.
Morrisville Borough SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 822 students. Morrisville HS is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Morrisville HS records that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 29% White, 26% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Bucks County as a whole is about 4% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 102% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Morrisville HS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 22.9%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Bucks County shows median household income runs about $114,764, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Bucks County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), Morrisville HS is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Morrisville Intermediate Sch, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 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), Morrisville HS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 16.9%.
Morrisville HS operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Morrisville HS's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 439 (now 405). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 19% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.
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