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Neil A Armstrong MS
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Located at 475 Wistar Rd, in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, Neil An Armstrong MS is a mid-sized junior high that caters to 668 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Bristol Township SD.
Across the 6 schools in Bristol Township SD (5,985 students total), Neil An Armstrong MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Neil An Armstrong MS reports that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 13% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Neil An Armstrong MS has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Neil An Armstrong MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Neil An Armstrong MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.0%; this one delivers 25.5%.
In the broader community, Bucks County reports that median household earnings sit near $114,764, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Bucks County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), of which Neil An Armstrong MS is one.
The closest other public school is Bucks County Technical High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Neil An Armstrong MS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Neil An Armstrong MS has decreased 18%, going from 819 students in 2018 to 668 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 53% across the same window.
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