Enrollment
217
Middle
DISTRICT 330 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHARPSVILLE AREA SD·NCES 422142000084
Sharpsville Area Middle School
303 Blue Devil Way, Sharpsville, PA 16150 · (724) 962-7863 · Mercer County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL217 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
11.8:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
118 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 6 | 70 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 73 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 74 | 34% |
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · 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
Sharpsville Area Middle School→Sharpsville Area SHS
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Sharpsville Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
55.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.9pp since 2023
Math
37.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.1% | 37.2% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 30.7% |
% 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
48.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Sharpsville Area Middle School
Sharpsville Area Middle School's state test result (48.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharpsville Area Middle School this school | 217 | 54.4% | 48.8% |
| Ridgway Area Middle School Ridgway | 198 | 54.5% | 59.4% |
| Newport Middle School Newport | 228 | 54.8% | 39.4% |
| Frazier Middle School Perryopolis | 221 | 56.1% | 36.4% |
| McConnellsburg Middle School McConnellsburg | 213 | 49.8% | 48.1% |
| Halifax Area Middle School Halifax | 263 | 51.7% | 44.0% |
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 Sharpsville Area Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #231 of 479 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #251 of 513 ▲ 81 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #211 of 513 ▼ 1 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 217 | #477 of 522 | #4 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #120 of 486 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.4% | #383 of 486 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.4% | #227 of 510 | #3 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.7% | #24 of 332 | 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
217
-41 (-16%) vs 2020
-33% since 2000-01, when it was 324
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 217 | 18.5 | 11.8:1 | 54% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 231 | 18.1 | 12.8:1 | 51% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 236 | 19.9 | 11.9:1 | 40% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 258 | 16 | 16.1:1 | 45% (117) |
| 2017-18 | 313 | 16.5 | 19.0:1 | 42% (132) |
| 2015-16 | 312 | 17 | 18.4:1 | 46% (145) |
| 2010-11 | 337 | 16 | 21.1:1 | 34% (113) |
| 2000-01 | 324 | 17 | 19.1:1 | 23% (76) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sharpsville Area Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (313 to 217); teachers up 12% (16.5 to 18.5).
About Sharpsville Area Middle School
Sharpsville Area Middle School is a small middle school in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, (ZIP code 16150). The school reports 217 students in grades 6 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in Pennsylvania is about 594 students.
Sharpsville Area SD has 3 schools; together they serve 989 students.
At Sharpsville Area Middle School, White students make up 89% of the student body. The remaining students are 6% multiracial and 3% Black. The county population is about 88% White, within a few points of the school. By the diversity index, Sharpsville Area Middle School comes in at 20%.
Staffing totals 18.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.8:1. For comparison, middle schools in Pennsylvania average 13.2:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 54%. That is lower than the 71% average for public schools in Mercer County.
Measured against Pennsylvania public middle schools, Sharpsville Area Middle School receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Sharpsville Area Middle School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 48.8%, compared with a predicted 54.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Mercer County show that median household income is about $59,976, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 37 public schools in Mercer County, with a combined enrollment of about 12,815.
The school nearest to Sharpsville Area Middle School is Sharpsville Area SHS, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of Sharpsville Area Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Sharpsville Area Middle School is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around Sharpsville Area Middle School as Town: Fringe, meaning in a town close to an urbanized area.
Sharpsville Area Middle School saw enrollment fall 16% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 11.8 students per teacher, compared with 16.1 in 2020-21.
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Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
109,257
Census ACS
Median income
$59,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
12,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sharpsville Area SD
- Sharpsville Area Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Sharpsville Area SHSHigh · 326 students
Other schools in Sharpsville
- Sharpsville Area Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Sharpsville Area SHSHigh · 326 students
Nearby schools
- Sharpsville Area SHS0.0 mi · 326
- Sharpsville Area Elementary School0.1 mi · 446
- Sharon High School1.6 mi · 532
- Sharon Middle School1.6 mi · 254
- Karen A. Ionta Elementary School1.6 mi · 307
- Case Avenue Elementary School1.6 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About Sharpsville Area Middle SchoolHow many students attend Sharpsville Area Middle School?
Sharpsville Area Middle School enrolls approximately 217 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Sharpsville Area Middle School serve?
Sharpsville Area Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Sharpsville Area Middle School?
Approximately 11.8:1 students per teacher at Sharpsville Area Middle School.
How diverse is Sharpsville Area Middle School?
Sharpsville Area Middle School reports a student body of 89% White, 2% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Sharpsville Area Middle School?
Sharpsville Area Middle School is overseen by Sharpsville Area SD in Mercer County.
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