Pennridge North MS

Pennridge North MS is a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, part of Pennridge SD. The school caters to 510 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within Pennridge SD, which oversees 11 schools and 5,968 students, Pennridge North MS is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Pennridge North MS shows that White students make up the majority at 78%. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Bucks County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Pennridge North MS has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 28% of students at Pennridge North MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pennridge North MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 59.8%, a residual of -5.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bucks County put the typical household earns roughly $114,764 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Bucks County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), Pennridge North MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pennridge HS, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pennridge North MS comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pennridge North MS has fell 21%, going from 648 students in 2018 to 510 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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