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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Perkiomen Valley MS-East this year?
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Enrollment
592
Middle
DISTRICT 551 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PERKIOMEN VALLEY SD·NCES 421893003326
Perkiomen Valley MS-East
100 Kagey Rd, Collegeville, PA 19426 · (610) 409-8580 · Montgomery County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL592 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
11.9:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
130 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 | 194 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 196 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 202 | 34% |
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
Perkiomen Valley MS-East→Perkiomen Valley High School
Based on grade levels within Perkiomen Valley SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
71.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.2pp since 2023
Math
57.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.9% | 57.3% |
| 2023-24 | 77.1% | 55.4% |
% 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
67.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Perkiomen Valley MS-East
Perkiomen Valley MS-East's state test result (67.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perkiomen Valley MS-East this school | 592 | 22.0% | 67.1% |
| Moon Area Lower Middle School Moon Township | 639 | 24.9% | 68.8% |
| Mount Nittany Middle School State College | 752 | 21.8% | 66.3% |
| Indian Valley Middle School Harleysville | 731 | 20.4% | 59.5% |
| Southern Lehigh Intermediate School Bethlehem | 702 | 17.9% | 75.6% |
| Moon Area Upper Middle School Moon Township | 621 | 27.4% | 63.5% |
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 Perkiomen Valley MS-East ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.1% | #53 of 479 | #9 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.3% | #74 of 513 ▼ 3 | #12 of 33 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #59 of 513 ▼ 16 | #9 of 33 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 592 | #240 of 522 | #31 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #141 of 486 | #14 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.6% | #214 of 486 | #30 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.0% | #454 of 510 | #23 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.8% | #66 of 332 | #4 of 21 |
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
592
-102 (-15%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 519
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 592 | 49.7 | 11.9:1 | 22% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 642 | 51.2 | 12.5:1 | 20% (130) |
| 2022-23 | 676 | 52.3 | 12.9:1 | 15% (104) |
| 2020-21 | 694 | 52 | 13.3:1 | 12% (84) |
| 2017-18 | 738 | 57.1 | 12.9:1 | 12% (88) |
| 2015-16 | 780 | 55 | 14.2:1 | 11% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 809 | 60 | 13.5:1 | 7% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 993 | 73 | 13.6:1 | 11% (105) |
| 1990-91 | 519 | 36 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Perkiomen Valley MS-East.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (738 to 592); teachers down 13% (57.1 to 49.7).
About Perkiomen Valley MS-East
Perkiomen Valley MS-East is a mid-sized middle school in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, administered by Perkiomen Valley SD. It reports enrollment of 592 students in grades 6 through 8.
Besides Perkiomen Valley MS-East, Perkiomen Valley SD runs 6 other schools. The district enrolls 4,672 students.
Of every 100 students at Perkiomen Valley MS-East, about 75 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 9% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 5% Black. Among Montgomery County residents, the White share is about 73%. The diversity index for Perkiomen Valley MS-East is 43%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at Perkiomen Valley MS-East, there are about 11.9 students; the school has 49.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 22%. The average for public schools in Montgomery County is 40%.
Perkiomen Valley MS-East earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 86% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Perkiomen Valley MS-East would be expected to post about 68.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 67.1%.
In the wider Montgomery County area, median household income comes to about $113,915, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Montgomery County's 160 public schools enroll about 115,302 students and include Perkiomen Valley MS-East.
Evergreen Elementary School is about 0.1 miles from Perkiomen Valley MS-East, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Perkiomen Valley MS-East holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 67.1% average proficiency ranks 6th among 7 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 15%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.3:1 to 11.9:1 over the same years.
People who know Perkiomen Valley MS-East can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
867,573
Census ACS
Median income
$113,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
115,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Perkiomen Valley SD
- Perkiomen Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,616 students
- Skippack Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Perkiomen Valley MS-WestMiddle · 509 students
- Schwenksville Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
- South Elementary SchoolElementary · 459 students
Other schools in Collegeville
- Perkiomen Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,616 students
- Skippack Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
- Arrowhead Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
- South East Youth Dev CenterHigh · 1 students
Nearby schools
- Evergreen Elementary School0.1 mi · 465
- Perkiomen Valley High School0.4 mi · 1,616
- South Elementary School1.4 mi · 459
- Schwenksville Elementary School2.1 mi · 474
- Skippack Elementary School2.3 mi · 557
- South East Youth Dev Center2.4 mi · 1
Frequently asked questions
About Perkiomen Valley MS-EastHow many students attend Perkiomen Valley MS-East?
Perkiomen Valley MS-East enrolls approximately 592 students in grades 06-08.
Is Perkiomen Valley MS-East an elementary, middle, or high school?
Perkiomen Valley MS-East is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Perkiomen Valley MS-East?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at Perkiomen Valley MS-East.
How diverse is Perkiomen Valley MS-East?
Perkiomen Valley MS-East reports a student body of 75% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Perkiomen Valley MS-East?
Perkiomen Valley MS-East is overseen by Perkiomen Valley SD in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.