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Enrollment
456
Middle
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNRIDGE SD·NCES 421875004681
Pennridge Central Middle School
144 Walnut Street, Perkasie, PA 18944 · (215) 258-0939 · Bucks County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.6:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
117 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 | 143 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 142 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 171 | 38% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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
Pennridge Central Middle School→Pennridge High School
Based on grade levels within Pennridge SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
56.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -8.7pp since 2023
Math
39.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.3% | 39.8% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 41.3% |
% 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
54.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% 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 Pennridge Central Middle School
Pennridge Central Middle School's state test result (54.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennridge Central Middle School this school | 456 | 25.7% | 54.5% |
| Donald H Eichhorn Middle School Lewisburg | 438 | 26.9% | 70.4% |
| Perkiomen Valley MS-West Zieglerville | 509 | 28.5% | 58.0% |
| Pennridge North Middle School Perkasie | 510 | 28.2% | 59.8% |
| Quaker Valley Middle School Sewickley | 425 | 22.4% | 72.4% |
| Haine Middle School Cranberry Twp | 522 | 24.7% | 66.5% |
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 Pennridge Central Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #160 of 479 | #13 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #221 of 513 ▼ 27 | #14 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #193 of 513 ▼ 46 | #14 of 27 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #332 of 522 | #21 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #41 of 486 | #6 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.4% | #233 of 486 | #17 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.7% | #436 of 510 | #19 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.3% | #27 of 332 | #2 of 22 |
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
456
-155 (-25%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 488
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 456 | 42.9 | 10.6:1 | 26% (117) |
| 2023-24 | 483 | 43.5 | 11.1:1 | 24% (117) |
| 2022-23 | 528 | 46.3 | 11.4:1 | 26% (135) |
| 2020-21 | 611 | 44 | 13.9:1 | 24% (147) |
| 2017-18 | 636 | 40.5 | 15.7:1 | 22% (137) |
| 2015-16 | 659 | 42 | 15.7:1 | 18% (116) |
| 2010-11 | 600 | 41 | 14.6:1 | 14% (81) |
| 2000-01 | 637 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 8% (50) |
| 1990-91 | 488 | 38 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pennridge Central Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (636 to 456); teachers up 6% (40.5 to 42.9).
About Pennridge Central Middle School
Pennridge Central Middle School is classified as a middle-grades school. It is located in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 456 students. The school's enrollment is 23% smaller than the 594 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
Pennridge Central Middle School is one of the 11 schools that make up Pennridge SD (5,968 students in total).
White students make up a majority at Pennridge Central Middle School, at 76%. Smaller groups are 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. The school's diversity index is 40%, meaning two students picked at random have a 40% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal staffing data show 42.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Pennridge Central Middle School and a ratio of 10.6:1. This ratio sits 2.5 below the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 26% of students. That rate is below the 40% average among public schools in Bucks County.
Pennridge Central Middle School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 51% of Pennsylvania public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, Pennridge Central Middle School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 54.5%; the prediction is 66.6%.
Pennridge Central Middle School is located in Bucks County, where the median household income is $114,764, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Pennridge Central Middle School is one of 123 public schools in the county.
The nearest public school is Seylar Elementary School, at about 1.3 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Pennridge Central Middle School places 8th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The school enrolled 456 students in 2024-25, 155 fewer than the 611 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2020-21 to 10.6:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pennridge SD
- Pennridge High SchoolHigh · 2,125 students
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Bedminster Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Grasse Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Seylar Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
Other schools in Perkasie
- Pennridge High SchoolHigh · 2,125 students
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Bedminster Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Seylar Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Pennridge South Middle SchoolMiddle · 332 students
Nearby schools
- Seylar Elementary School1.3 mi · 382
- Sellersville Elementary School1.6 mi · 292
- Grasse Elementary School1.8 mi · 394
- Pennridge South Middle School2.0 mi · 332
- Patricia A Guth Elementary School2.3 mi · 399
- Pennridge High School2.8 mi · 2,125
Frequently asked questions
About Pennridge Central Middle SchoolHow large is Pennridge Central Middle School?
Pennridge Central Middle School enrolls approximately 456 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Pennridge Central Middle School serve?
Pennridge Central Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Pennridge Central Middle School?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at Pennridge Central Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Pennridge Central Middle School?
Student demographics at Pennridge Central Middle School are roughly 76% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Pennridge Central Middle School in?
Pennridge Central Middle School is part of Pennridge SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.