Rochester MS

Rochester MS is a minimally staffed middle school in Rochester, Pennsylvania, overseen by Rochester Area SD. The school educates 181 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 70% below the state mean of about 594.

Rochester Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 749 students; Rochester MS is among them.

In terms of who attends, Rochester MS lists that 63% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 19% Black, 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Beaver County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Rochester MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Beaver County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Rochester MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 35.8%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Around the school, Beaver County reports that median household income runs about $71,089, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Beaver County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students), of which Rochester MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rochester Area Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rochester MS comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rochester MS's enrollment has ticked up 19% since 2018, when it stood at 152 (now 181). Black enrollment moved from 25% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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