Pennfield MS

Pennfield MS is a middle-grades school of average-sized scale in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within North Penn SD, hosting 865 students in grades 7 through 9. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Pennfield MS sits 46% above that benchmark.

North Penn SD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 12,817 students. Pennfield MS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Pennfield MS shows that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 21% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pennfield MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the broader community, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), Pennfield MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hatfield El Sch, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pennfield MS. On composite proficiency, Pennfield MS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Pennfield MS's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 873 (now 865). The White share of enrollment decreased from 63% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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