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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Pennwood MS administration to hear?
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Enrollment
740
Middle
DISTRICT 765 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNSBURY SD·NCES 421884001116
Pennwood Middle School
1523 Makefield Rd, Yardley, PA 19067 · (215) 428-4237 · Bucks County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL740 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% 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.
- C+Beats 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
10.5:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
229 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 | 243 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 245 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 252 | 34% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · 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
Pennwood Middle School→Pennsbury High School
Based on grade levels within Pennsbury SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
57.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
49.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.1% | 49.8% |
| 2023-24 | 64.1% | 46.8% |
% 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
55.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Pennwood Middle School
Pennwood Middle School's state test result (55.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennwood Middle School this school | 740 | 30.9% | 55.7% |
| Moon Area Upper Middle School Moon Township | 621 | 27.4% | 63.5% |
| Nazareth Area Intermediate School Nazareth | 752 | 29.5% | 61.0% |
| Sandburg Middle School Levittown | 729 | 36.6% | 43.4% |
| William Penn Middle School Yardley | 904 | 35.8% | 55.0% |
| Charles H Boehm Middle School Yardley | 651 | 32.4% | 59.6% |
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 Pennwood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #147 of 479 | #10 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.8% | #122 of 513 ▲ 17 | #9 of 27 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #179 of 513 ▼ 23 | #12 of 27 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 740 | #151 of 522 | #12 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #36 of 486 | #5 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.0% | #182 of 486 | #10 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.9% | #407 of 510 | #17 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #272 of 332 | #18 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
740
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 731
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 740 | 70.7 | 10.5:1 | 31% (229) |
| 2023-24 | 739 | 67.7 | 10.9:1 | 31% (229) |
| 2022-23 | 736 | 67.7 | 10.9:1 | 30% (223) |
| 2020-21 | 755 | 66 | 11.4:1 | 26% (198) |
| 2017-18 | 772 | 71.9 | 10.7:1 | 26% (203) |
| 2015-16 | 853 | 80 | 10.7:1 | 21% (180) |
| 2010-11 | 955 | 73 | 13.1:1 | 14% (132) |
| 2000-01 | 975 | 69 | 14.1:1 | 10% (101) |
| 1990-91 | 731 | 65 | 11.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pennwood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (772 to 740); teachers down 2% (71.9 to 70.7).
About Pennwood Middle School
Pennwood Middle School is a mid-sized middle school with its address in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Enrollment totals 740 students across grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 594, and this school is 25% bigger than that mark.
Pennsbury SD has a total of 14 schools and 9,435 students, Pennwood Middle School among them.
The largest group at Pennwood Middle School is White students, at 72%. The remaining students are 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, and 6% Asian. Among people living in Bucks County, the White share is about 81%. The diversity index for Pennwood Middle School is 46%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 70.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.5:1. Statewide, middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1. Pennwood Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 31%. It compares with 40% for public schools in Bucks County.
Pennwood Middle School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 60% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Pennwood Middle School would be expected to post about 64.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 55.7%.
In Bucks County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $114,764, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 123 public schools in the county, enrolling about 81,956, Pennwood Middle School among them.
Charles H Boehm Middle School is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Pennwood Middle School is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Pennwood Middle School was 755 in 2020-21 and 740 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
Pennwood Middle School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Pennsbury SD
- Pennsbury High SchoolHigh · 2,847 students
- William Penn Middle SchoolMiddle · 904 students
- Charles H Boehm Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 583 students
- Edgewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Afton Elementary SchoolElementary · 483 students
Other schools in Yardley
- William Penn Middle SchoolMiddle · 904 students
- Charles H Boehm Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Edgewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Afton Elementary SchoolElementary · 483 students
- Quarry Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 464 students
- Makefield Elementary SchoolElementary · 397 students
Nearby schools
- Charles H Boehm Middle School0.3 mi · 651
- William Penn Middle School0.3 mi · 904
- Makefield Elementary School0.8 mi · 397
- Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School0.8 mi · 583
- Edgewood Elementary School1.2 mi · 557
- Fallsington Elementary School1.6 mi · 256
Frequently asked questions
About Pennwood Middle SchoolHow large is Pennwood Middle School?
Pennwood Middle School enrolls approximately 740 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Pennwood Middle School serve?
Pennwood Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Pennwood Middle School?
Approximately 10.5:1 students per teacher at Pennwood Middle School.
How diverse is Pennwood Middle School?
Pennwood Middle School reports a student body of 72% White, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Pennwood Middle School?
Pennwood Middle School is overseen by Pennsbury SD in Bucks County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.