Palisades MS

Palisades MS is one of the small intermediate schools in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, run under Palisades SD, with 308 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 48% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Palisades SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,372 students. Palisades MS is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Palisades MS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Palisades MS tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at Palisades MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bucks County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Palisades MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.1%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of -14.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bucks County shows median household earnings sit near $114,764, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Bucks County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), of which Palisades MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Durham-Nockamixon El Sch, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Palisades MS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.8%.

Palisades MS operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Palisades MS's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 349 (now 308).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.