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If you had an hour of school board time for Pennridge South MS, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
332
Middle
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNRIDGE SD·NCES 421875001099
Pennridge South Middle School
Fifth & Cedar Streets, Perkasie, PA 18944 · (215) 257-0467 · Bucks County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL332 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% 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
9.2:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
149 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 | 88 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 136 | 41% |
Student demographics
37%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 South 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
51.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.9pp since 2023
Math
32.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.3% | 32.3% |
| 2023-24 | 59.2% | 30.9% |
% 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
46.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 South Middle School
Pennridge South Middle School's state test result (46.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennridge South Middle School this school | 332 | 44.9% | 46.5% |
| Smith Middle School Quarryville | 367 | 48.0% | 32.8% |
| Marticville Middle School Pequea | 393 | 48.1% | 57.5% |
| Garden Spot Middle School New Holland | 404 | 43.1% | 39.8% |
| Bloomsburg Area Middle School Bloomsburg | 380 | 50.0% | 50.1% |
| Swift Middle School Quarryville | 326 | 48.2% | 35.0% |
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 South Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #263 of 479 | #16 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #311 of 513 ▲ 16 | #20 of 27 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #261 of 513 ▼ 45 | #18 of 27 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 332 | #408 of 522 | #23 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #6 of 486 | #1 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.5% | #265 of 486 | #21 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.9% | #303 of 510 | #9 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.4% | #26 of 332 | #1 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
332
-119 (-26%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 357
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 332 | 36 | 9.2:1 | 45% (149) |
| 2023-24 | 383 | 38.6 | 9.9:1 | 39% (149) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 40.6 | 10.5:1 | 39% (168) |
| 2020-21 | 451 | 40 | 11.3:1 | 36% (164) |
| 2017-18 | 464 | 33 | 14.1:1 | 33% (151) |
| 2015-16 | 487 | 35 | 13.9:1 | 27% (133) |
| 2010-11 | 448 | 38 | 11.8:1 | 23% (104) |
| 2000-01 | 524 | 34 | 15.4:1 | 9% (46) |
| 1990-91 | 357 | 27 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pennridge South Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (464 to 332); teachers up 9% (33 to 36).
About Pennridge South Middle School
Families in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, are served by Pennridge South Middle School, a small middle school. School enrollment was 332 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in Pennsylvania average about 594 students.
Pennridge South Middle School is among 11 schools run by Pennridge SD, which serves 5,968 students.
A majority of students at Pennridge South Middle School, 78%, are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 11% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. That is close to the 81% White share among all Bucks County residents. Pennridge South Middle School has a diversity index of 37%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Pennridge South Middle School employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 9.2:1. That ratio is under the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 45% in 2024-25.
The allk12 Grade for Pennridge South Middle School is C+. Compared with Pennsylvania public middle schools, the school scored higher than 38% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 46.5%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 58.4%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Bucks County show that median household income is about $114,764, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 123 public schools in Bucks County, with a combined enrollment of about 81,956.
Nearby, West Rockhill Elementary School is about 1.1 miles away. Pennridge South Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 64.5% on proficiency, and Pennridge South Middle School is below that at 46.5%.
Federal data place Pennridge South Middle School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Pennridge South Middle School had 451 students in 2020-21 and 332 in 2024-25, a 26% decrease. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.3:1 to 9.2:1 over the same years.
Community posts for Pennridge South Middle School can cover 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
- Pennridge Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 456 students
- Bedminster Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Grasse Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
Other schools in Perkasie
- Pennridge High SchoolHigh · 2,125 students
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Pennridge Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 456 students
- Bedminster Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Seylar Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
Nearby schools
- West Rockhill Elementary School1.1 mi · 350
- Sellersville Elementary School1.1 mi · 292
- Patricia A Guth Elementary School1.3 mi · 399
- Pennridge Central Middle School2.0 mi · 456
- Pennridge High School2.2 mi · 2,125
- Pennridge North Middle School2.4 mi · 510
Frequently asked questions
About Pennridge South Middle SchoolHow many students attend Pennridge South Middle School?
Pennridge South Middle School enrolls approximately 332 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Pennridge South Middle School serve?
Pennridge South Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Pennridge South Middle School have?
Pennridge South Middle School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.2:1.
How diverse is Pennridge South Middle School?
Pennridge South Middle School reports a student body of 78% White, 11% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Pennridge South Middle School in?
Pennridge South Middle School is part of Pennridge SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.