Oley Valley MS

Oley Valley MS is a cozy 6-8 campus in Oley, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Oley Valley SD. The school caters to 325 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 45% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Within Oley Valley SD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,424 students, Oley Valley MS is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Oley Valley MS lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Oley Valley MS reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at Oley Valley MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Berks County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Oley Valley MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.8%; this one delivers 52.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Berks County) reports that median household earnings sit near $79,777, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Oley Valley MS is one.

The closest other public school is Oley Valley El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oley Valley MS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.6%.

Oley Valley MS operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oley Valley MS has declined 14%, going from 378 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 4% to 9% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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