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Enrollment
703
Middle
DISTRICT 890 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINE-RICHLAND SD·NCES 420285000314
Pine-Richland Middle School
100 Logan Rd, Gibsonia, PA 15044 · (724) 625-3111 · Allegheny County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL703 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% 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.
- BBeats 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
12.2:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
45 students
DISTRICT 8% · 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 7 | 354 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 349 | 50% |
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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-Richland Middle School→Pine-Richland High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pine-Richland SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
76.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.7pp since 2023
Math
58.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.9% | 58.1% |
| 2023-24 | 78.6% | 57.2% |
% 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
70.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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 Pine-Richland Middle School
Pine-Richland Middle School's state test result (70.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine-Richland Middle School this school | 703 | 6.4% | 70.2% |
| Lenape Middle School Doylestown | 779 | 11.8% | 62.6% |
| Mellon Middle School Pittsburgh | 661 | 13.8% | 76.3% |
| Holicong Middle School Doylestown | 907 | 9.0% | 74.4% |
| Mars Area Middle School Mars | 563 | 10.8% | 58.7% |
| Mars Area Centennial School Mars | 627 | 12.0% | 68.2% |
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-Richland Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #39 of 479 | #13 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #68 of 513 ▼ 9 | #18 of 51 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #30 of 513 ▼ 2 | #10 of 51 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 703 | #168 of 522 | #14 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #173 of 486 | #19 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.6% | #334 of 486 | #37 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.4% | #508 of 510 | #50 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #288 of 332 | #24 of 27 |
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
703
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
+64% since 1990-91, when it was 429
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 703 | 57.7 | 12.2:1 | 6% (45) |
| 2023-24 | 696 | 56.8 | 12.3:1 | 6% (45) |
| 2022-23 | 724 | 56.2 | 12.9:1 | 7% (52) |
| 2020-21 | 714 | 55 | 13.0:1 | 6% (41) |
| 2017-18 | 725 | 53.9 | 13.4:1 | 6% (46) |
| 2015-16 | 739 | 54 | 13.7:1 | 7% (50) |
| 2010-11 | 757 | 52 | 14.6:1 | 5% (41) |
| 2000-01 | 797 | 57 | 14.0:1 | 3% (25) |
| 1990-91 | 429 | 32 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pine-Richland Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (725 to 703); teachers up 7% (53.9 to 57.7).
About Pine-Richland Middle School
Pine-Richland Middle School is a medium-sized middle school in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools in Pine-Richland SD. Enrolled students number 703 students, in grades 7 through 8.
District-wide, Pine-Richland SD has 6 schools and 4,553 students.
White students are the large majority at Pine-Richland Middle School, with 85% of enrollment. Other groups include 7% Asian, 4% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Allegheny County residents are about 76% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Pine-Richland Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 28%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.2:1, with 57.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among middle schools in Pennsylvania, the typical ratio is 13.2:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Pine-Richland Middle School is 6%. On average, public schools in Allegheny County report 54%.
The allk12 Grade for Pine-Richland Middle School is A-. Compared with Pennsylvania public middle schools, the school scored higher than 84% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
In Pennsylvania, Pine-Richland Middle School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 70.2% actual against a predicted 74.9%.
Allegheny County has about 1,238,177 residents, and median household income is about $78,548, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 277 public schools in Allegheny County, with a combined enrollment of about 141,392.
Pine-Richland High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Pine-Richland Middle School's average proficiency of 70.2% compares with 76.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal data place Pine-Richland 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.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 714 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 703.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pine-Richland SD
- Pine-Richland High SchoolHigh · 1,449 students
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 1,076 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Wexford Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Hance Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
Other schools in Gibsonia
- Pine-Richland High SchoolHigh · 1,449 students
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 1,076 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Hance Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
- Poff Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
Nearby schools
- Pine-Richland High School0.2 mi · 1,449
- Wexford Elementary School2.9 mi · 449
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary School2.9 mi · 1,076
- Richland Elementary School3.0 mi · 470
- Mars Area SHS3.0 mi · 1,044
- Mars Area Primary Center3.1 mi · 506
Frequently asked questions
About Pine-Richland Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pine-Richland Middle School?
Pine-Richland Middle School enrolls approximately 703 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does Pine-Richland Middle School serve?
Pine-Richland Middle School serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Pine-Richland Middle School?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Pine-Richland Middle School.
How diverse is Pine-Richland Middle School?
Pine-Richland Middle School reports a student body of 85% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Pine-Richland Middle School public or private?
Pine-Richland Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pine-Richland SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.