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Enrollment
820
Middle
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALMYRA AREA SD·NCES 421839002765
Palmyra Area Middle School
50 W Cherry St, Palmyra, PA 17078 · (717) 838-1331 · Lebanon County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL820 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
13.6:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
248 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 6 | 280 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 265 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 275 | 34% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
Palmyra Area Middle School→Palmyra Area SHS
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Palmyra Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
70.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.9pp since 2023
Math
53.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.6pp 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 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.4% | 53.9% |
| 2023-24 | 74.3% | 56.5% |
% 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
64.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Palmyra Area Middle School
Palmyra Area Middle School's state test result (64.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmyra Area Middle School this school | 820 | 30.2% | 64.5% |
| Nazareth Area Intermediate School Nazareth | 752 | 29.5% | 61.0% |
| Charles H Boehm Middle School Yardley | 651 | 32.4% | 59.6% |
| Pennwood Middle School Yardley | 740 | 30.9% | 55.7% |
| Owen J Roberts Middle School Pottstown | 856 | 22.4% | 60.0% |
| Nazareth Area Middle School Nazareth | 775 | 27.6% | 59.0% |
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 Palmyra Area Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lebanon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #71 of 479 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #89 of 513 ▼ 22 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #69 of 513 ▼ 11 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 820 | #110 of 522 | #2 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #300 of 486 | #3 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.0% | #229 of 486 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.2% | #409 of 510 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #204 of 332 | N/A |
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
820
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 814
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 820 | 60.4 | 13.6:1 | 30% (248) |
| 2023-24 | 817 | 60.4 | 13.5:1 | 30% (248) |
| 2022-23 | 829 | 59 | 14.1:1 | 29% (242) |
| 2020-21 | 827 | 59 | 14.0:1 | 28% (233) |
| 2017-18 | 897 | 58.1 | 15.4:1 | 24% (215) |
| 2015-16 | 840 | 54 | 15.6:1 | 23% (196) |
| 2010-11 | 777 | 47 | 16.5:1 | 15% (117) |
| 2000-01 | 657 | 37 | 17.8:1 | 12% (80) |
| 1990-91 | 814 | 48 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Palmyra Area Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (897 to 820); teachers up 4% (58.1 to 60.4).
About Palmyra Area Middle School
Palmyra Area Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school based in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. It had 820 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 594 students for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
Palmyra Area Middle School reports to Palmyra Area SD, which has 6 schools and 3,405 students.
The student body at Palmyra Area Middle School is 76% White. Other reported shares: 9% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 5% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 41, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Palmyra Area Middle School, there are about 13.6 students; the school has 60.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. There are 248 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 30% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Lebanon County is 61%.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Palmyra Area Middle School outscored 86%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Palmyra Area Middle School scores 64.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 64.6%.
In the wider Lebanon County area, the median household earns about $78,425 a year, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Palmyra Area Middle School shares Lebanon County with 36 other public schools.
Palmyra Area Middle School's nearest public school is Pine Street Elementary School (about 0.3 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Palmyra Area Middle School is 8th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 820, close to the 827 recorded in 2020-21.
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Lebanon County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
144,186
Census ACS
Median income
$78,425
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
18,804 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palmyra Area SD
- Palmyra Area SHSHigh · 1,126 students
- Lingle Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
- Pine Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Forge Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 341 students
- Northside Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
Other schools in Palmyra
- Palmyra Area SHSHigh · 1,126 students
- Lingle Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
- Pine Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Forge Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 341 students
- Northside Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
Nearby schools
- Pine Street Elementary School0.3 mi · 342
- Forge Road Elementary School0.7 mi · 341
- Northside Elementary School0.8 mi · 229
- Palmyra Area SHS0.8 mi · 1,126
- Lingle Avenue Elementary School1.1 mi · 547
- Hershey Middle School3.0 mi · 742
Frequently asked questions
About Palmyra Area Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Palmyra Area Middle School?
Palmyra Area Middle School enrolls approximately 820 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Palmyra Area Middle School serve?
Palmyra Area Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Palmyra Area Middle School have?
Palmyra Area Middle School employs 60 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
How diverse is Palmyra Area Middle School?
Palmyra Area Middle School reports a student body of 76% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Palmyra Area Middle School?
Palmyra Area Middle School is overseen by Palmyra Area SD in Lebanon County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.