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Enrollment
729
Middle
DISTRICT 997 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NESHAMINY SD·NCES 421641001076
Sandburg Middle School
30 Harmony Road, Levittown, PA 19056 · (215) 809-6220 · Bucks County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL729 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% 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.
- DBeats 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
15.2:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
267 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 190 | 26% |
| Grade 6 | 187 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 165 | 23% |
| Grade 8 | 187 | 26% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
Sandburg Middle School→Neshaminy High School
Based on grade levels within Neshaminy SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
51.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.3pp since 2023
Math
34.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 51 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 34.3% |
| 2023-24 | 55.3% | 31.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
43.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 62% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Sandburg Middle School
Sandburg Middle School's state test result (43.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandburg Middle School this school | 729 | 36.6% | 43.4% |
| Strayer Middle School Quakertown | 737 | 37.3% | 40.6% |
| William Penn Middle School Yardley | 904 | 35.8% | 55.0% |
| Pennwood Middle School Yardley | 740 | 30.9% | 55.7% |
| Manheim Central Middle School Manheim | 846 | 38.3% | 46.1% |
| Schuylkill Valley Middle School Leesport | 691 | 38.6% | 43.5% |
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 Sandburg Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #310 of 479 | #20 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #279 of 513 ▲ 36 | #18 of 27 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #263 of 513 ▲ 9 | #19 of 27 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 729 | #160 of 522 | #14 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #417 of 486 | #24 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #176 of 486 | #8 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.6% | #370 of 510 | #12 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #310 of 332 | #20 of 22 |
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
729
+16 (+2%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 575
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 729 | 48.1 | 15.2:1 | 37% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 721 | 48.2 | 15.0:1 | 37% (267) |
| 2022-23 | 686 | 46.4 | 14.8:1 | 38% (258) |
| 2020-21 | 713 | 44 | 16.2:1 | 35% (248) |
| 2017-18 | 741 | 44.1 | 16.8:1 | 36% (264) |
| 2015-16 | 635 | 43 | 14.8:1 | 27% (173) |
| 2010-11 | 573 | 47 | 12.2:1 | 18% (106) |
| 2000-01 | 769 | 45 | 17.1:1 | 10% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 575 | 45 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sandburg Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (741 to 729); teachers up 9% (44.1 to 48.1).
About Sandburg Middle School
Sandburg Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Pennsylvania, with an address in Levittown. The school had 729 students in grades 5 through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (middle schools in Pennsylvania) has about 594 students.
Sandburg Middle School is one school in Neshaminy SD, a system of 10 schools with 9,353 students.
Sandburg Middle School is 71% White by enrollment. The remaining students are 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Black, and 5% Asian. Among people living in Bucks County, the White share is about 81%. Sandburg Middle School's diversity index is 47%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 48.1 full-time positions, a ratio of 15.2:1. That is higher than the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 37%.
allk12 grades Sandburg Middle School a C. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Sandburg Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 61.9%. The school's actual rate is 43.4%, 18.5 points lower.
Across Bucks County, the median household income is $114,764, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. In all, Bucks County has 123 public schools and roughly 81,956 students.
Nearest public school: Schweitzer Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Sandburg Middle School ranks 5th of 9 on average proficiency.
Sandburg Middle School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Sandburg Middle School had 713 students in 2020-21 and 729 in 2024-25, nearly the same. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 16.2:1 to 15.2:1.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Sandburg Middle School covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Neshaminy SD
- Neshaminy High SchoolHigh · 2,916 students
- Maple Point Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,296 students
- Poquessing Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Tawanka Elementary SchoolElementary · 835 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
- Buck Elementary SchoolElementary · 571 students
Other schools in Levittown
- Truman SHSHigh · 1,626 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 975 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 974 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 754 students
- Miller Elementary SchoolElementary · 486 students
- Manor Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
Other Sandburg Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Sandburg Middle. Sandburg Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Sandburg MiddleAlexandria, VA · 1,401 students
- Sandburg MiddleGlendora, CA · 695 students
- Sandburg Middle SchoolElmhurst, IL · 633 students
- Sandburg Middle SchoolGOLDEN VALLEY, MN · 341 students
Nearby schools
- Schweitzer Elementary School0.1 mi · 407
- Miller Elementary School1.5 mi · 486
- Neil A Armstrong Middle School1.6 mi · 668
- Hoover Elementary School1.6 mi · 661
- Bucks County Technical High School1.7 mi · 1,415
- Oxford Valley Elementary School2.0 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About Sandburg Middle SchoolHow large is Sandburg Middle School?
Sandburg Middle School enrolls approximately 729 students in grades 05-08.
Is Sandburg Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sandburg Middle School is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
How many students per teacher at Sandburg Middle School?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at Sandburg Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Sandburg Middle School?
Student demographics at Sandburg Middle School are roughly 71% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Sandburg Middle School in?
Sandburg Middle School is part of Neshaminy SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.