Owen J Roberts MS

Owen J Roberts MS is a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, part of Owen J Roberts SD. The school instructs 856 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 44% larger than the state mean of about 594.

Owen J Roberts SD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,300 students. Owen J Roberts MS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Owen J Roberts MS shows that 77% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Owen J Roberts MS has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Chester County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Owen J Roberts MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 60.0%, a residual of -8.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Chester County reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chester County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), Owen J Roberts MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Owen J Roberts HS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Owen J Roberts MS. On composite proficiency, Owen J Roberts MS comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.3%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Owen J Roberts MS has remained close to its prior level, going from 866 students in 2018 to 856 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 83% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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