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Enrollment
856
Middle
DISTRICT 757 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OWEN J ROBERTS SD·NCES 421827005010
Owen J Roberts Middle School
881 Ridge Rd, Pottstown, PA 19465 · (610) 469-5102 · Chester County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL856 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
192 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 446 | 52% |
| Grade 8 | 407 | 48% |
| Grade 9 | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Owen J Roberts Middle School→Owen J Roberts High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Owen J Roberts SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
69.8%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.3pp since 2023
Math
48.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.8% | 48.4% |
| 2023-24 | 69.5% | 45.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Owen J Roberts Middle School
Owen J Roberts Middle School's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owen J Roberts Middle School this school | 856 | 22.4% | 60.0% |
| Mount Nittany Middle School State College | 752 | 21.8% | 66.3% |
| Dorseyville Middle School Pittsburgh | 981 | 22.1% | 80.4% |
| Indian Valley Middle School Harleysville | 731 | 20.4% | 59.5% |
| Franklin Regional Middle School Murrysville | 771 | 18.8% | 65.8% |
| Southern Lehigh Intermediate School Bethlehem | 702 | 17.9% | 75.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Owen J Roberts Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #99 of 479 | #8 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.4% | #130 of 513 ▲ 26 | #7 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #71 of 513 ▲ 25 | #7 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 856 | #90 of 522 | #11 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #223 of 486 | #13 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.5% | #241 of 486 | #21 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.4% | #449 of 510 | #10 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.2% | #313 of 332 | #11 of 11 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
856
-60 (-7%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 793
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 856 | 67.3 | 12.7:1 | 22% (192) |
| 2023-24 | 868 | 70.1 | 12.4:1 | 22% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 910 | 65.5 | 13.9:1 | 22% (200) |
| 2020-21 | 916 | 68 | 13.5:1 | 20% (182) |
| 2017-18 | 866 | 60.6 | 14.3:1 | 18% (153) |
| 2015-16 | 829 | 61 | 13.6:1 | 15% (123) |
| 2010-11 | 781 | 62 | 12.6:1 | 10% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 984 | 66 | 14.9:1 | 10% (97) |
| 1990-91 | 793 | 53 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Owen J Roberts Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (866 to 856); teachers up 11% (60.6 to 67.3).
About Owen J Roberts Middle School
Owen J Roberts Middle School is a middle-grades school with a street address in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. A total of 856 students attend the school, which covers grades 7 through 8. The average for middle schools in Pennsylvania is about 594 students, so this school is 44% bigger than average.
The 7 schools in Owen J Roberts SD enroll 5,300 students altogether, Owen J Roberts Middle School among them.
At Owen J Roberts Middle School, White students make up 77% of the student body. The school is also 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. For comparison, Chester County is about 77% White. The school's diversity index is 39%, meaning two students picked at random have a 39% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its 67.3 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 12.7:1. For comparison, middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1. The school's lunch program data list 22% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Chester County average 38%.
allk12 grades Owen J Roberts Middle School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Pennsylvania with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 68.0%. Owen J Roberts Middle School scores 60.0%.
Within Chester County, the median household income is $127,208, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Besides Owen J Roberts Middle School, Chester County has 110 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Owen J Roberts High School, is about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 7 other public schools. Owen J Roberts Middle School is 7th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Owen J Roberts Middle School is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment at Owen J Roberts Middle School declined 7% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 916 to 856 students.
Posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news are welcome on this page. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Chester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
547,840
Census ACS
Median income
$127,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
83,468 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Owen J Roberts SD
- Owen J Roberts High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- French Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 581 students
- North Coventry Elementary SchoolElementary · 532 students
- West Vincent Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
- East Vincent Elementary SchoolElementary · 512 students
- East Coventry Elementary SchoolElementary · 479 students
Other schools in Pottstown
- Owen J Roberts High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Pottsgrove SHSHigh · 973 students
- Pottstown Middle SchoolMiddle · 918 students
- Pottstown High SchoolHigh · 911 students
- Pottsgrove Middle SchoolMiddle · 678 students
- Lower Pottsgrove Elementary SchoolElementary · 646 students
Nearby schools
- Owen J Roberts High School0.2 mi · 1,810
- French Creek Elementary School2.0 mi · 581
- East Vincent Elementary School2.7 mi · 512
- North Coventry Elementary School3.0 mi · 532
- East Coventry Elementary School3.2 mi · 479
- Rupert Elementary School4.7 mi · 379
Frequently asked questions
About Owen J Roberts Middle SchoolHow many students attend Owen J Roberts Middle School?
Owen J Roberts Middle School enrolls approximately 856 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Owen J Roberts Middle School serve?
Owen J Roberts Middle School serves grades 07-08.
How many teachers does Owen J Roberts Middle School have?
Owen J Roberts Middle School employs 67 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Owen J Roberts Middle School?
At Owen J Roberts Middle School, the student body is approximately 77% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Owen J Roberts Middle School in?
Owen J Roberts Middle School is part of Owen J Roberts SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.