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Ryan Gloyer MS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Ryan Gloyer MS
Ryan Gloyer MS is one of the high-enrollment middle schools in Harmony, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Seneca Valley SD, with 1,157 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Ryan Gloyer MS sits 95% above that benchmark.
Seneca Valley SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 7,439 students; Ryan Gloyer MS is among them.
On demographics, Ryan Gloyer MS records that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian.
On the income-and-resources front, Ryan Gloyer MS records 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Butler County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ryan Gloyer MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.9%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of -12.4 points.
Zooming out to the county, Butler County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,843 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ryan Gloyer MS is one of 39 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students).
Seneca Valley HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ryan Gloyer MS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.6%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ryan Gloyer MS has stayed largely flat, going from 1,170 students in 2018 to 1,157 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 91% to 86% over that span.
On the community side, the feed for Ryan Gloyer MS typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Butler County at a glance
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