New Brighton Area MS

Set in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, New Brighton Area MS is a close-knit 6-8 campus, run under New Brighton Area SD. It teaches 290 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 594.

Within New Brighton Area SD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,230 students, New Brighton Area MS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, New Brighton Area MS logs that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder looks like 20% multiracial, 8% Black, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Beaver County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Brighton Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Beaver County) reports that median household income runs about $71,089, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Beaver County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students), of which New Brighton Area MS is one.

New Brighton Area HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Brighton Area MS. On composite proficiency, New Brighton Area MS comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Brighton Area MS has declined 8%, going from 316 students in 2018 to 290 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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