Northern MS

Northern MS is a middle school of average-sized scale in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, part of Northern York County SD, caters to 757 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 594.

Northern York County SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,209 students; Northern MS is among them.

Looking at the student body, Northern MS reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Northern MS has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at Northern MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, York County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northern MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of -16.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,829 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Northern MS is one of 111 public schools in York County (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students).

The closest other public school is Northern HS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northern MS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Northern MS's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 765 (now 757).

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