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Enrollment
518
Middle
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENN-TRAFFORD SD·NCES 421866004492
Penn Middle School
1007 Penn Middle Way, Jeannette, PA 15644 · (724) 744-4431 · Westmoreland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL518 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% 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.
- A-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
14.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
128 students
DISTRICT 27% · 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 | 179 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 177 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 162 | 31% |
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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
Penn Middle School→Penn Trafford High School
Based on grade levels within Penn-Trafford SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
78.3%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.6pp since 2023
Math
60.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.3% | 60.8% |
| 2023-24 | 77.7% | 63.3% |
% 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
70.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 Penn Middle School
Penn Middle School's state test result (70.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penn Middle School this school | 518 | 24.7% | 70.7% |
| Northwestern Lehigh Middle School New Tripoli | 440 | 24.8% | 55.9% |
| Southern Middle School Glen Rock | 466 | 23.4% | 51.2% |
| Freeport Area Middle School Sarver | 428 | 29.0% | 65.3% |
| Hampton Middle School Allison Park | 606 | 18.2% | 74.8% |
| Ehrman Crest Middle School Cranberry Township | 642 | 20.1% | 58.3% |
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 Penn Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Westmoreland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #35 of 479 | #3 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #52 of 513 ▼ 16 | #2 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.3% | #20 of 513 ▲ 16 | #1 of 19 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 518 | #293 of 522 | #9 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #361 of 486 | #13 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.5% | #448 of 486 | #16 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.7% | #440 of 510 | #17 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.9% | #103 of 332 | #3 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
518
-42 (-7%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 452
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 518 | 36.2 | 14.3:1 | 25% (128) |
| 2023-24 | 507 | 37.2 | 13.6:1 | 25% (128) |
| 2022-23 | 498 | 37.6 | 13.2:1 | 21% (107) |
| 2020-21 | 560 | 36 | 15.6:1 | 16% (88) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 37 | 16.5:1 | 19% (117) |
| 2015-16 | 630 | 35 | 18.0:1 | 16% (98) |
| 2010-11 | 594 | 30 | 19.8:1 | 12% (69) |
| 2000-01 | 690 | 37 | 18.6:1 | 11% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 452 | 25 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Penn Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (609 to 518); teachers down 2% (37 to 36.2).
About Penn Middle School
Penn Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in Pennsylvania, located in Jeannette. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 518 students.
Penn Middle School is one school in Penn-Trafford SD, a system of 8 schools with 3,773 students.
Roughly 93% of students at Penn Middle School are White. The remaining students are 3% multiracial. Westmoreland County residents are about 92% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Penn Middle School scores 13%.
There are about 14.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Penn Middle School, which has 36.2. Middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1, 1.2 fewer students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Penn Middle School is about 25%. That is lower than the 53% average for public schools in Westmoreland County.
On the allk12 Grade, Penn Middle School lands at A, ahead of 93% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
Penn Middle School scores 70.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 67.0%.
American Community Survey estimates for Westmoreland County show that median household income comes to about $74,109, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Westmoreland County counts 85 public schools with about 41,302 students.
McCullough Elementary School is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 69.5%; Penn Middle School's is 70.7%, ranking 7th of 9.
Penn Middle School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Penn Middle School had a net loss of 42 students, or 7%. The school's ratio dropped from 15.6:1 to 14.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Westmoreland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
352,500
Census ACS
Median income
$74,109
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
85
41,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Penn-Trafford SD
- Penn Trafford High SchoolHigh · 1,167 students
- McCullough Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Sunrise Elementary SchoolElementary · 412 students
- Harrison Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
- Trafford Middle SchoolMiddle · 354 students
- Level Green Elementary SchoolElementary · 269 students
Other schools in Jeannette
- Jeannette McKee Elementary SchoolElementary · 504 students
- McCullough Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Harrison Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
- Jeannette High SchoolHigh · 405 students
Nearby schools
- McCullough Elementary School0.1 mi · 448
- Harrison Park Elementary School0.6 mi · 409
- Penn Trafford High School0.8 mi · 1,167
- Sunrise Elementary School2.7 mi · 412
- Jeannette McKee Elementary School3.3 mi · 504
- Sheridan Terrace Elementary School3.5 mi · 417
Frequently asked questions
About Penn Middle SchoolHow many students attend Penn Middle School?
Penn Middle School enrolls approximately 518 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Penn Middle School serve?
Penn Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Penn Middle School?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at Penn Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Penn Middle School?
At Penn Middle School, the student body is approximately 93% White, 0% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Penn Middle School in?
Penn Middle School is part of Penn-Trafford SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.