Schuylkill Haven MS

Schuylkill Haven MS is one of the tight-knit middle schools in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, overseen by Schuylkill Haven Area SD, with 255 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 7. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 57% leaner than typical.

Within Schuylkill Haven Area SD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,161 students, Schuylkill Haven MS is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Schuylkill Haven MS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Schuylkill County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Schuylkill County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Schuylkill Haven MS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.1%; actual is 34.0%, a gap of -20.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Schuylkill County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,313 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Schuylkill County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,259 students), of which Schuylkill Haven MS is one.

Schuylkill Haven SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Schuylkill Haven MS comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Schuylkill Haven MS has fell 10%, going from 283 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 93% to 86% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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