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What's one thing Pennbrook MS gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
767
Middle
DISTRICT 934 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH PENN SD·NCES 421728003322
Pennbrook Middle School
1201 East Walnut Street, North Wales, PA 19454 · (215) 699-9287 · Montgomery County
GRADES 07–09MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL767 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% 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.
- BBeats 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
12.1:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
173 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 7 | 272 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 245 | 32% |
| Grade 9 | 250 | 33% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
Pennbrook Middle School→North Penn SHS
Based on grade levels within North Penn SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
74.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.8pp since 2023
Math
53.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 75 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.7% | 53.7% |
| 2023-24 | 77.5% | 44.7% |
% 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
64.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Pennbrook Middle School
Pennbrook Middle School's state test result (64.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennbrook Middle School this school | 767 | 22.6% | 64.6% |
| Eagle View Middle School Mechanicsburg | 1,111 | 28.8% | 68.7% |
| Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center Downingtown | 1,066 | 15.2% | 66.2% |
| South Fayette Middle School McDonald | 859 | 14.1% | 76.6% |
| Wissahickon Middle School Ambler | 1,208 | 22.7% | 67.6% |
| Garnet Valley Middle School Glen Mills | 1,086 | 13.4% | 70.1% |
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 Pennbrook Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.6% | #69 of 479 | #11 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #92 of 513 ▲ 69 | #15 of 33 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #43 of 513 ▼ 5 | #8 of 33 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 767 | #132 of 522 | #18 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #163 of 486 | #16 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.4% | #71 of 486 | #10 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.6% | #448 of 510 | #21 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #195 of 332 | #10 of 21 |
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
767
-100 (-12%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 805
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 767 | 63.5 | 12.1:1 | 23% (173) |
| 2023-24 | 756 | 64.4 | 11.8:1 | 23% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 807 | 65.1 | 12.4:1 | 25% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 867 | 63 | 13.8:1 | 23% (199) |
| 2017-18 | 841 | 61.8 | 13.6:1 | 21% (176) |
| 2015-16 | 881 | 65 | 13.6:1 | 18% (161) |
| 2010-11 | 829 | 71 | 11.7:1 | 10% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 911 | 66 | 13.8:1 | 5% (48) |
| 1990-91 | 805 | 66 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pennbrook Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (841 to 767); teachers up 3% (61.8 to 63.5).
About Pennbrook Middle School
Pennbrook Middle School serves students in North Wales, Pennsylvania, as a mid-sized middle-grades school. Federal data show 767 students enrolled in grades 7 through 9 in 2024-25. On average, middle schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 594, and this school is 29% larger than that mark.
North Penn SD enrolls 12,817 students in 17 schools, including Pennbrook Middle School.
More than half of enrollment at Pennbrook Middle School is White: 57%. Other groups include 23% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, and 6% Hispanic. The county population is about 73% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pennbrook Middle School scores 61%.
There are about 12.1 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Pennbrook Middle School, which has 63.5. The school's 12.1:1 compares with an average of 13.2:1 for middle schools in Pennsylvania. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 23%. That is lower than the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County.
On the allk12 Grade, Pennbrook Middle School lands at A-, ahead of 83% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
A school with Pennbrook Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Pennsylvania is predicted to score 67.9%. Pennbrook Middle School scores 64.6%, 3.4 points below that line.
In the surrounding county, Montgomery County, the median household earns about $113,915 a year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Pennbrook Middle School, Montgomery County has 160 public schools.
About 0.3 miles separate Pennbrook Middle School from the closest public school, Gwyn-Nor Elementary School. The five-mile area around Pennbrook Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Pennbrook Middle School ranks 5th of 9 nearby schools, at 64.6% versus a 61.8% average.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 12% decline, from 867 to 767. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.8:1 to 12.1:1.
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Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
867,573
Census ACS
Median income
$113,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
115,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Penn SD
- North Penn SHSHigh · 3,165 students
- Penndale Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Pennfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- Gwyn-Nor Elementary SchoolElementary · 663 students
- Knapp Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
- Montgomery Elementary SchoolElementary · 611 students
Other schools in North Wales
- Gwyn-Nor Elementary SchoolElementary · 663 students
- Montgomery Elementary SchoolElementary · 611 students
- North Wales Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
Nearby schools
- Gwyn-Nor Elementary School0.3 mi · 663
- North Wales Elementary School0.7 mi · 484
- Penndale Middle School1.2 mi · 1,171
- Knapp Elementary School1.2 mi · 633
- Gwynedd Square Elementary School2.1 mi · 610
- York Avenue Elementary School2.2 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About Pennbrook Middle SchoolHow many students attend Pennbrook Middle School?
Pennbrook Middle School enrolls approximately 767 students in grades 07-09.
What age range does Pennbrook Middle School serve?
Pennbrook Middle School serves students from grade 07 through grade 09.
How many students per teacher at Pennbrook Middle School?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Pennbrook Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Pennbrook Middle School?
Student demographics at Pennbrook Middle School are roughly 57% White, 6% Hispanic, 7% Black, 23% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Pennbrook Middle School public or private?
Pennbrook Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by North Penn SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.