Northwest MS

Set in Reading, Pennsylvania, Northwest MS is a medium-sized intermediate school, part of Reading SD. It caters to 821 students across grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Northwest MS sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

Reading SD runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 16,423 students. Northwest MS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Northwest MS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school records 6% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Berks County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Northwest MS has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Northwest MS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 101% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Berks County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Northwest MS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.4%; actual is 12.9%, a gap of -21.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Berks County) records that the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Berks County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), Northwest MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Riverside El Sch, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northwest MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northwest MS at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 25.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northwest MS has increased 24%, going from 664 students in 2018 to 821 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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