Penn Cambria MS

Penn Cambria MS is a middle-grades school of close-knit scale in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Penn Cambria SD, works with 343 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 42% smaller than typical.

Penn Cambria SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,449 students. Penn Cambria MS is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Penn Cambria MS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder looks like 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Penn Cambria MS has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Penn Cambria MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Across the wider county, Cambria County reports that median household income runs about $58,418, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Cambria County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,789 students), of which Penn Cambria MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Penn Cambria Pre-Primary, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Penn Cambria MS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 59.0%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Penn Cambria MS has shrank 34%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 343 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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