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Enrollment
411
Middle
DISTRICT 490 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINE GROVE AREA SD·NCES 421914005262
Pine Grove Area Middle School
105 School Street, Pine Grove, PA 17963 · (570) 345-2731 · Schuylkill County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL411 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
193 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 5 | 88 | 21% |
| Grade 6 | 100 | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 113 | 27% |
| Grade 8 | 110 | 27% |
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
Pine Grove Area Middle School→Pine Grove Area High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pine Grove Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
42.6%
PA avg 51.1% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
35.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.6% | 35.5% |
| 2023-24 | 38.1% | 29.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Pine Grove Area Middle School
Pine Grove Area Middle School's state test result (38.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove Area Middle School this school | 411 | 47.0% | 38.0% |
| Bedford Middle School Bedford | 414 | 45.2% | 50.5% |
| Deer Lakes Middle School Cheswick | 383 | 45.4% | 50.7% |
| Huntingdon Area Middle School Huntingdon | 419 | 49.9% | 44.3% |
| Ramsay Elementary School Mount Pleasant | 396 | 50.0% | 51.5% |
| Everett Area Middle School Everett | 358 | 48.6% | 33.5% |
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 Pine Grove Area Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #359 of 479 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #269 of 513 ▲ 79 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #369 of 513 ▲ 64 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 411 | #364 of 522 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #45 of 486 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.1% | #451 of 486 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.0% | #286 of 510 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.0% | #41 of 332 |
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
411
-102 (-20%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 551
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
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 | 411 | 38.5 | 10.7:1 | 47% (193) |
| 2023-24 | 447 | 39.5 | 11.3:1 | 43% (193) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 39.5 | 12.0:1 | 40% (188) |
| 2020-21 | 513 | 37 | 13.9:1 | 42% (213) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 37.5 | 14.2:1 | 48% (256) |
| 2015-16 | 508 | 38 | 13.4:1 | 43% (218) |
| 2010-11 | 508 | 40 | 12.7:1 | 36% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 574 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 25% (144) |
| 1990-91 | 551 | 31 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pine Grove Area Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (534 to 411); teachers up 3% (37.5 to 38.5).
About Pine Grove Area Middle School
Families in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, are served by Pine Grove Area Middle School, a low-enrollment middle-grades school. The school runs grades 5 through 8 and enrolls 411 students. Middle schools in Pennsylvania have about 594 students on average; enrollment here is 31% lower.
Pine Grove Area SD is made up of 3 schools with 1,469 students in all.
Of every 100 students at Pine Grove Area Middle School, about 94 are White. After that, the student body is 3% multiracial. A diversity index of 12% means there is a 12% chance two randomly chosen students at Pine Grove Area Middle School are from different groups.
Pine Grove Area Middle School reported 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 10.7:1. Middle schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.2:1. Roughly 47% of students at Pine Grove Area Middle School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Schuylkill County averages 66%, higher than here.
Pine Grove Area Middle School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 19% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
Pine Grove Area Middle School is 19.5 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Schuylkill County show that the median household earns about $68,313 a year, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Across Schuylkill County, 35 public schools serve about 18,259 students.
Pine Grove Elementary School is less than a tenth of a mile from Pine Grove Area Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within five miles. Pine Grove Area Middle School places 8th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
In the federal locale system, Pine Grove Area Middle School is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The school's student count decreased 20% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 10.7 students per teacher, compared with 13.9 in 2020-21.
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Schuylkill County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
143,558
Census ACS
Median income
$68,313
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
18,259 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pine Grove Area SD
- Pine Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 563 students
- Pine Grove Area High SchoolHigh · 495 students
Other schools in Pine Grove
- Pine Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 563 students
- Pine Grove Area High SchoolHigh · 495 students
Nearby schools
- Pine Grove Elementary School0.1 mi · 563
- Pine Grove Area High School0.1 mi · 495
- Bethel Elementary School7.9 mi · 286
- Blue Mountain El West School8.1 mi · 451
- Northern Lebanon Elementary School9.1 mi · 1,018
- Northern Lebanon SHS9.3 mi · 997
Frequently asked questions
About Pine Grove Area Middle SchoolHow large is Pine Grove Area Middle School?
Pine Grove Area Middle School enrolls approximately 411 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Pine Grove Area Middle School serve?
Pine Grove Area Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Pine Grove Area Middle School?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at Pine Grove Area Middle School.
How diverse is Pine Grove Area Middle School?
Pine Grove Area Middle School reports a student body of 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Pine Grove Area Middle School?
Pine Grove Area Middle School is overseen by Pine Grove Area SD in Schuylkill County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.