Slippery Rock Area MS

Located at 201 Kiester Rd, in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock Area MS is a close-knit junior high that educates 404 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Slippery Rock Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 594.

Across the 4 schools in Slippery Rock Area SD (1,833 students total), Slippery Rock Area MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Slippery Rock Area MS records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Slippery Rock Area MS has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Slippery Rock Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.7%, the actual is 62.6%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Butler County put median household income runs about $89,843, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Butler County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students), Slippery Rock Area MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Slippery Rock Area HS, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Slippery Rock Area MS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 62.0%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Slippery Rock Area MS has shrank 9%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 404 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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