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Enrollment
425
Middle
DISTRICT 446 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·QUAKER VALLEY SD·NCES 421986000447
Quaker Valley Middle School
618 Harbaugh Street, Sewickley, PA 15143 · (412) 749-5079 · Allegheny County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL425 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% 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.
- A-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
9.4:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
95 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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 | 135 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 151 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 139 | 33% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
Quaker Valley Middle School→Quaker Valley High School
Based on grade levels within Quaker Valley SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
74.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.5pp since 2023
Math
63.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.9% | 63.7% |
| 2023-24 | 80.4% | 63.6% |
% 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
72.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% 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 Quaker Valley Middle School
Quaker Valley Middle School's state test result (72.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quaker Valley Middle School this school | 425 | 22.4% | 72.4% |
| Southern Middle School Glen Rock | 466 | 23.4% | 51.2% |
| Northwestern Lehigh Middle School New Tripoli | 440 | 24.8% | 55.9% |
| Trafford Middle School Trafford | 354 | 24.0% | 64.6% |
| Pennridge Central Middle School Perkasie | 456 | 25.7% | 54.5% |
| Cecil Intrmd School Mc Donald | 412 | 29.4% | 66.3% |
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 Quaker Valley Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #28 of 479 | #12 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.7% | #41 of 513 ▼ 9 | #14 of 51 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.9% | #42 of 513 ▼ 18 | #13 of 51 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 425 | #350 of 522 | #38 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #9 of 486 | #3 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.6% | #305 of 486 | #33 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.4% | #451 of 510 | #36 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #167 of 332 | #17 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
425
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 377
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 425 | 45.3 | 9.4:1 | 22% (95) |
| 2023-24 | 433 | 43.3 | 10.0:1 | 22% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 418 | 40.7 | 10.3:1 | 25% (104) |
| 2020-21 | 430 | 40 | 10.8:1 | 23% (97) |
| 2017-18 | 475 | 37.7 | 12.6:1 | 16% (74) |
| 2015-16 | 446 | 39 | 11.4:1 | 17% (77) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | 41 | 11.2:1 | 14% (62) |
| 2000-01 | 437 | 35 | 12.5:1 | 8% (37) |
| 1990-91 | 377 | 33 | 11.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Quaker Valley Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (475 to 425); teachers up 20% (37.7 to 45.3).
About Quaker Valley Middle School
Quaker Valley Middle School is one of the public schools in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. It is a small middle school. The school counted 425 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. That is 28% below the average of about 594 students for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
Quaker Valley Middle School is one school in Quaker Valley SD, a system of 4 schools with 1,784 students.
The share of White students at Quaker Valley Middle School is 82%. The remaining shares are 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 3% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Quaker Valley Middle School scores 32%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Quaker Valley Middle School is 9.4:1, based on 45.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1. Lunch program data show 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Allegheny County is 54%.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Quaker Valley Middle School outscored 94%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Pennsylvania schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Quaker Valley Middle School's results are 4.3 points above predicted: 72.4% against 68.0%.
Looking at the county, Allegheny County, the median household earns about $78,548 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Allegheny County has 277 public schools with about 141,392 students, including Quaker Valley Middle School.
Quaker Valley Middle School's nearest public school is Osborne Elementary School (about 0.7 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Quaker Valley Middle School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 425, close to the 430 recorded in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 10.8:1 to 9.4:1.
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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 Quaker Valley SD
- Quaker Valley High SchoolHigh · 550 students
- Edgeworth Elementary SchoolElementary · 412 students
- Osborne Elementary SchoolElementary · 397 students
Other schools in Sewickley
- Pennsylvania Distance Learning CSCombined · 1,246 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 718 students
- Edgeworth Elementary SchoolElementary · 412 students
- Osborne Elementary SchoolElementary · 397 students
Nearby schools
- Osborne Elementary School0.7 mi · 397
- Edgeworth Elementary School1.0 mi · 412
- Richard J. Hyde Elementary School1.2 mi · 237
- J.A. Allard Elementary School2.0 mi · 209
- Quaker Valley High School2.1 mi · 550
- Cornell High School2.1 mi · 252
Frequently asked questions
About Quaker Valley Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Quaker Valley Middle School?
Quaker Valley Middle School enrolls approximately 425 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Quaker Valley Middle School serve?
Quaker Valley Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Quaker Valley Middle School?
Approximately 9.4:1 students per teacher at Quaker Valley Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Quaker Valley Middle School?
At Quaker Valley Middle School, the student body is approximately 82% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Quaker Valley Middle School public or private?
Quaker Valley Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Quaker Valley SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.