Selinsgrove Area MS

Set in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, Selinsgrove Area MS is a mid-tier intermediate school, part of Selinsgrove Area SD. It educates 532 students across grades 6 through 8.

Selinsgrove Area MS is one of 4 schools operated by Selinsgrove Area SD, a district that caters to 2,283 students overall.

On demographics, Selinsgrove Area MS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Selinsgrove Area MS logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Snyder County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Selinsgrove Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Snyder County shows median household earnings sit near $66,876, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Selinsgrove Area MS is one of 8 public schools in Snyder County (combined enrollment of about 4,190 students).

Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Selinsgrove Area MS comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.9%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Selinsgrove Area MS's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 670 (now 532). Class-load math has fell: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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