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Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat 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 59 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch
As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch works with 535 students from grades 3 through 5, one of the schools within Selinsgrove Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch sits 21% above that benchmark.
Selinsgrove Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,283 students; Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch is among them.
On demographics, Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Snyder County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.7%, the actual is 61.4%, a residual of +4.7 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Snyder County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,876 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Snyder County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,190 students), Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Selinsgrove Area MS, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Selinsgrove Intrmd Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 53.4%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 564 students in 2018 compared to 535 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.
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