Northern Cambria MS

Northern Cambria MS operates as an one-room-style 6-8 campus in Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania, run under Northern Cambria SD. Current enrollment sits at 234 students spanning grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Northern Cambria MS sits 61% below that benchmark.

Northern Cambria MS is one of 3 schools operated by Northern Cambria SD, a district that caters to 758 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northern Cambria MS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%).

On the income-and-resources front, Northern Cambria MS reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Northern Cambria MS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 105% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cambria County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northern Cambria MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Across the wider county, Cambria County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,418 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Cambria County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,789 students), Northern Cambria MS is one campus in the mix.

Northern Cambria El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northern Cambria MS at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.4%.

Northern Cambria MS operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northern Cambria MS has declined 34%, going from 352 students in 2018 to 234 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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