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Enrollment
650
Middle
DISTRICT 629 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRING GROVE AREA SD·NCES 422259006725
Spring Grove Area Middle School
244 Old Hanover Rd, Spring Grove, PA 17362 · (717) 225-4731 · York County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL650 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
15.0:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
265 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 2 | 0% |
| Grade 7 | 322 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 321 | 49% |
| Grade 9 | 5 | 1% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
Spring Grove Area Middle School→Spring Grove Area High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Spring Grove Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
52.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.4pp since 2023
Math
32.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.2% | 32.9% |
| 2023-24 | 58.6% | 34.5% |
% 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
47.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Spring Grove Area Middle School
Spring Grove Area Middle School's state test result (47.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Grove Area Middle School this school | 650 | 40.8% | 47.3% |
| Spring Grove Area Intrmd School Spring Grove | 608 | 38.5% | 51.3% |
| Boyertown Area MS-West Boyertown | 668 | 39.8% | 51.6% |
| Red Lion Area Junior High School Red Lion | 747 | 45.6% | 43.5% |
| Warwick Middle School Lititz | 568 | 36.8% | 53.6% |
| Upper Perkiomen Middle School Pennsburg | 672 | 35.0% | 52.8% |
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 Spring Grove Area Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #255 of 479 | #13 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #301 of 513 ▼ 21 | #18 of 22 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #250 of 513 ▼ 16 | #10 of 22 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 650 | #202 of 522 | #11 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #406 of 486 | #16 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.3% | #281 of 486 | #16 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.8% | #336 of 510 | #14 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.9% | #112 of 131 | #6 of 7 |
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
650
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 626
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 650 | 43.3 | 15.0:1 | 41% (265) |
| 2023-24 | 633 | 44.2 | 14.3:1 | 42% (265) |
| 2022-23 | 635 | 44.3 | 14.3:1 | 35% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 648 | 44 | 14.7:1 | 27% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 638 | 43.7 | 14.6:1 | 34% (217) |
| 2015-16 | 627 | 43 | 14.6:1 | 34% (212) |
| 2010-11 | 605 | 46 | 13.2:1 | 31% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 722 | 43 | 16.8:1 | 15% (106) |
| 1990-91 | 626 | 43 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spring Grove Area Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (638 to 650); teachers down 1% (43.7 to 43.3).
About Spring Grove Area Middle School
Spring Grove Area Middle School, a mid-sized middle school, is located in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Enrollment totals 650 students across grades 7 through 8.
The district, Spring Grove Area SD, has 3,854 students enrolled across 6 schools.
At Spring Grove Area Middle School, 80% of students are White. Smaller groups are 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put York County at about 81% White, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for Spring Grove Area Middle School is 35%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 43.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 15.0:1. The gap from the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania is 1.9 students per teacher. The school reported 41% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 12 points below the 53% average for public schools in York County.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Spring Grove Area Middle School outscored 38%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Spring Grove Area Middle School is 12.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (47.3% versus 60.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
The school is in York County, where median household income comes to about $84,829, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. York County counts 111 public schools with about 64,242 students.
About 0.5 miles separate Spring Grove Area Middle School from the closest public school, Spring Grove Area Intrmd School. Within five miles are 5 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Spring Grove Area Middle School places 8th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Spring Grove Area Middle School is coded as Suburb: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Enrollment went from 648 in 2020-21 to 650 in 2024-25, a change of 2 students.
On allk12, people connected to Spring Grove Area Middle School can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
462,924
Census ACS
Median income
$84,829
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
64,242 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Spring Grove Area SD
- Spring Grove Area High SchoolHigh · 1,163 students
- Spring Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 724 students
- Spring Grove Area Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 608 students
- New Salem Elementary SchoolElementary · 403 students
- Paradise Elementary SchoolElementary · 306 students
Other schools in Spring Grove
- Spring Grove Area High SchoolHigh · 1,163 students
- Spring Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 724 students
- Spring Grove Area Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 608 students
Nearby schools
- Spring Grove Area Intrmd School0.5 mi · 608
- Spring Grove Area High School0.6 mi · 1,163
- Spring Grove Elementary School0.7 mi · 724
- Paradise Elementary School3.7 mi · 306
- New Salem Elementary School4.2 mi · 403
- Hanover Middle School6.4 mi · 636
Frequently asked questions
About Spring Grove Area Middle SchoolHow many students attend Spring Grove Area Middle School?
Spring Grove Area Middle School enrolls approximately 650 students in grades 07-08.
Is Spring Grove Area Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Spring Grove Area Middle School is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many teachers does Spring Grove Area Middle School have?
Spring Grove Area Middle School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
How diverse is Spring Grove Area Middle School?
Spring Grove Area Middle School reports a student body of 80% White, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Spring Grove Area Middle School in?
Spring Grove Area Middle School is part of Spring Grove Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.