Spring Cove MS

Spring Cove MS is a 6-8 campus of tight-knit scale in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, operated by Spring Cove SD, teacheing 363 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 594.

Spring Cove MS is one of 4 schools operated by Spring Cove SD, a district that caters to 1,568 students overall.

On demographics, Spring Cove MS lists that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Spring Cove MS higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Spring Cove MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Blair County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Spring Cove MS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.0%; Spring Cove MS posts 35.8%, -18.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Blair County) logs that median household income runs about $62,382, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Blair County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,692 students), of which Spring Cove MS is one.

Spring Cove El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Spring Cove MS comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 457 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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