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How has Salisbury MS changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
448
Middle
DISTRICT 485 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALISBURY TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 422073005365
Salisbury Middle School
3301 Devonshire Rd, Allentown, PA 18103 · (610) 791-0830 · Lehigh County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL448 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 33% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
220 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 5 | 109 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 116 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 116 | 26% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Salisbury Middle School→Salisbury SHS
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Salisbury Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
53.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.6pp since 2023
Math
33.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.3% | 33.6% |
| 2023-24 | 58.9% | 30.3% |
% 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
44.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Salisbury Middle School
Salisbury Middle School's state test result (44.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury Middle School this school | 448 | 49.1% | 44.3% |
| Manor Middle School Lancaster | 472 | 51.5% | 56.8% |
| Reiffton School Reading | 542 | 45.2% | 50.9% |
| Nitschmann Middle School Bethlehem | 731 | 48.8% | 42.5% |
| West York Area Middle School York | 645 | 55.5% | 34.6% |
| West Reading El Center West Reading | 310 | 39.7% | 60.1% |
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 Salisbury Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #293 of 479 | #8 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #293 of 513 ▲ 46 | #9 of 17 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #235 of 513 ▼ 12 | #8 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 448 | #335 of 522 | #14 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #167 of 486 | #6 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #70 of 486 | #5 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.1% | #269 of 510 | #9 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.1% | #26 of 131 | N/A |
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
448
-64 (-12%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 543
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 448 | 37 | 12.1:1 | 49% (220) |
| 2023-24 | 466 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 47% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 32.5 | 14.8:1 | 48% (231) |
| 2020-21 | 512 | 34 | 15.1:1 | 25% (130) |
| 2017-18 | 370 | 28.4 | 13.0:1 | 41% (152) |
| 2015-16 | 379 | 27 | 14.0:1 | 32% (121) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 42 | 13.4:1 | 17% (94) |
| 2000-01 | 646 | 40 | 16.1:1 | 10% (65) |
| 1990-91 | 543 | 37 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Salisbury Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (370 to 448); teachers up 30% (28.4 to 37).
About Salisbury Middle School
Federal records list Salisbury Middle School as a middle school in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It has an enrollment of 448 students in grades 5 through 8. On average, middle schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 594, and this school is 25% below that mark.
Salisbury Middle School is one school in Salisbury Township SD, a system of 3 schools with 1,455 students.
The student body at Salisbury Middle School is 54% White. It is also 29% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 6% Black. Lehigh County's residents are about 62% White, 9 points above the school's share. A diversity index of 62% means there is a 62% chance two randomly chosen students at Salisbury Middle School are from different groups.
Salisbury Middle School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 12.1:1. Middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1, 1.0 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 49% at Salisbury Middle School. Public schools in Lehigh County average 70%.
Salisbury Middle School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 33% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 56.5% for Salisbury Middle School. The school posts 44.3%, 12.3 points below the prediction.
The county, Lehigh County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $80,079, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 83, with about 56,984 students.
Salisbury Middle School is about 1.4 miles from Lincoln Elementary School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 44.3% is below the 53.0% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Salisbury Middle School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 12% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher dropped from 15.1 in 2020-21 to 12.1 in 2024-25.
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Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Salisbury Township SD
- Salisbury SHSHigh · 546 students
- Salisbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
Other schools in Allentown
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 3,279 students
- William Allen High SchoolHigh · 3,074 students
- Louis E Dieruff High SchoolHigh · 1,914 students
- Executive Education Academy CSCombined · 1,497 students
- Springhouse Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
- Lincoln Leadership Academy CSCombined · 973 students
Other Salisbury Middle schools
One other US public school is named Salisbury Middle. Salisbury Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Salisbury MiddleSalisbury, MD · 847 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School1.4 mi · 376
- Lehigh Parkway Elementary School1.5 mi · 276
- Jefferson Elementary School1.6 mi · 268
- Emmaus High School1.8 mi · 2,842
- Seven Generations CS1.8 mi · 497
- Union Terrace Elementary School2.3 mi · 674
Frequently asked questions
About Salisbury Middle SchoolHow large is Salisbury Middle School?
Salisbury Middle School enrolls approximately 448 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Salisbury Middle School serve?
Salisbury Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Salisbury Middle School?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Salisbury Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Salisbury Middle School?
At Salisbury Middle School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 29% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Salisbury Middle School in?
Salisbury Middle School is part of Salisbury Township SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.