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What's the most underrated thing about Ridley MS that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,291
Middle
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIDLEY SD·NCES 422037007299
Ridley Middle School
400 Free St., Ridley Park, PA 19078 · (610) 534-1900 · Delaware County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,291 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% 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.
- 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
13.7:1
94 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
732 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 420 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 436 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 435 | 34% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
Ridley Middle School→Ridley High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Ridley SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
42.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.1pp since 2023
Math
26.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.3% | 26.1% |
| 2023-24 | 51.4% | 27.9% |
% 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
37.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Ridley Middle School
Ridley Middle School's state test result (37.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridley Middle School this school | 1,291 | 56.7% | 37.9% |
| J T Lambert Intermediate School East Stroudsburg | 907 | 56.1% | 33.7% |
| Williamsport Area Middle School Williamsport | 706 | 63.7% | 39.7% |
| Dallastown Area Middle School Dallastown | 1,014 | 41.0% | 48.6% |
| Daniel Boone Area Middle School Douglassville | 884 | 44.8% | 48.8% |
| Shippensburg Area Middle School Shippensburg | 851 | 58.5% | 43.4% |
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 Ridley Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #361 of 479 | #9 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #368 of 513 ▼ 7 | #9 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.3% | #371 of 513 ▼ 51 | #10 of 14 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,291 | #16 of 522 | #3 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #308 of 486 | #10 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.1% | #136 of 486 | #4 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.7% | #208 of 510 | #6 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #282 of 332 | #8 of 9 |
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
1,291
+4 (+0%) vs 2020
+32% since 1990-91, when it was 977
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 1,291 | 94.4 | 13.7:1 | 57% (732) |
| 2023-24 | 1,307 | 89 | 14.7:1 | 56% (732) |
| 2022-23 | 1,286 | 93.3 | 13.8:1 | 56% (717) |
| 2020-21 | 1,287 | 92 | 14.0:1 | 44% (566) |
| 2017-18 | 1,339 | 88.6 | 15.1:1 | 43% (580) |
| 2015-16 | 1,250 | 86 | 14.5:1 | 42% (528) |
| 2010-11 | 1,289 | 94 | 13.7:1 | 28% (360) |
| 2000-01 | 1,349 | 94 | 14.3:1 | 21% (285) |
| 1990-91 | 977 | 63 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ridley Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (1,339 to 1,291); teachers up 7% (88.6 to 94.4).
About Ridley Middle School
Ridley Middle School is a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, administered by Ridley SD. Enrollment totals 1,291 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 117% bigger than the 594-student average for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
Ridley SD has 9 schools and 5,539 students, and Ridley Middle School is one of those schools.
About 65% of the student body at Ridley Middle School is White. Smaller groups are 20% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. Delaware County residents are about 63% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
Its staff includes 94.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.7 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Pennsylvania is about 13.2:1. Ridley Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 57%. That is in line with the 58% average for public schools in Delaware County.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Ridley Middle School outscored 22%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Ridley Middle School scores 37.9% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 53.3%.
In the wider Delaware County area, the median household earns about $89,546 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Ridley Middle School shares Delaware County with 112 other public schools.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Lakeview Elementary School, is the closest to Ridley Middle School. Ridley Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Ridley Middle School ranks 9th on proficiency.
Ridley Middle School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (1,287) and 2024-25 (1,291).
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Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ridley SD
- Ridley High SchoolHigh · 1,825 students
- Amosland Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Lakeview Elementary SchoolElementary · 403 students
- Grace Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 366 students
- Edgewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 347 students
- Woodlyn Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 students
Other schools in Ridley Park
- Lakeview Elementary SchoolElementary · 403 students
- Leedom Elementary SchoolElementary · 291 students
Nearby schools
- Lakeview Elementary School0.1 mi · 403
- Woodlyn Elementary School0.6 mi · 320
- Leedom Elementary School0.8 mi · 291
- Ridley High School0.9 mi · 1,825
- Grace Park Elementary School0.9 mi · 366
- Edgewood Elementary School1.2 mi · 347
Frequently asked questions
About Ridley Middle SchoolHow many students attend Ridley Middle School?
Ridley Middle School enrolls approximately 1,291 students in grades 06-08.
Is Ridley Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ridley Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Ridley Middle School?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Ridley Middle School.
How diverse is Ridley Middle School?
Ridley Middle School reports a student body of 65% White, 6% Hispanic, 20% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Ridley Middle School in?
Ridley Middle School is part of Ridley SD.
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