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Enrollment
820
Middle
DISTRICT 784 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 422301001805
Susquehanna Twp Middle School
801 Wood St, Harrisburg, PA 17109 · (717) 657-5125 · Dauphin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL820 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
17.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
517 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 | 293 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 270 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 257 | 31% |
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
Susquehanna Twp Middle School→Susquehanna Twp High School
Based on grade levels within Susquehanna Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
31.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.5pp since 2023
Math
14.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.3% | 14.5% |
| 2023-24 | 37.8% | 12.2% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Susquehanna Twp Middle School
Susquehanna Twp Middle School's state test result (25.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susquehanna Twp Middle School this school | 820 | 63.0% | 25.8% |
| Central Dauphin East Middle School Harrisburg | 702 | 94.4% | 27.5% |
| Upper Merion Area Middle School King of Prussia | 1,348 | 47.2% | 51.2% |
| Pittsburgh South Hills 6-8 Pittsburgh | 387 | 83.7% | 15.4% |
| Penndale Middle School Lansdale | 1,171 | 46.2% | 48.8% |
| Pennfield Middle School Hatfield | 865 | 40.8% | 56.0% |
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 Susquehanna Twp Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Dauphin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #432 of 479 | #11 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #445 of 513 ▲ 11 | #11 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #438 of 513 ▼ 2 | #12 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 820 | #112 of 522 | #3 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #471 of 486 | #13 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.0% | #1 of 486 | #1 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.0% | #191 of 510 | #7 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +32.5% | #13 of 131 | #1 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
820
+129 (+19%) vs 2020
+77% since 1990-91, when it was 464
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 820 | 46.9 | 17.5:1 | 63% (517) |
| 2023-24 | 744 | 43.3 | 17.2:1 | 69% (517) |
| 2022-23 | 723 | 42.2 | 17.1:1 | 63% (458) |
| 2020-21 | 691 | 44 | 15.7:1 | 58% (402) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 50 | 12.4:1 | 55% (342) |
| 2015-16 | 577 | 47 | 12.3:1 | 45% (257) |
| 2010-11 | 708 | 56 | 12.6:1 | 35% (245) |
| 2000-01 | 805 | 50 | 16.1:1 | 18% (144) |
| 1990-91 | 464 | 40 | 11.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Susquehanna Twp Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 32% (619 to 820); teachers down 6% (50 to 46.9).
About Susquehanna Twp Middle School
Susquehanna Twp Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school. Its address is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It reported 820 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 38% larger than the 594-student average for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
The Susquehanna Township SD system has 4 schools and 3,137 students.
The biggest share of students at Susquehanna Twp Middle School, 32%, is Black. The rest of enrollment is 20% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 17% White, and 12% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Dauphin County's population at about 17%. The diversity index for Susquehanna Twp Middle School is 78%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 46.9 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 17.5:1. Compared with the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is higher. By family income, 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Susquehanna Twp Middle School outscored 7%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Susquehanna Twp Middle School scores 24.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 25.8% actual versus 50.6% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for Dauphin County show that median household income comes to about $76,242, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county's public schools total 75, with about 72,718 students.
Susquehanna Twp Middle School is about 1.0 miles from Harrisburg High School, its nearest public school. Susquehanna Twp Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Susquehanna Twp Middle School's average proficiency of 25.8% compares with 34.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Under the NCES locale system, Susquehanna Twp Middle School is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment increased by 19% across 4 years, from 691 in 2020-21 to 820 in 2024-25. The ratio was 15.7:1 in 2020-21 and 17.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Dauphin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
289,593
Census ACS
Median income
$76,242
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
72,718 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Susquehanna Township SD
- Thomas W Holtzman Jr Elementary SchoolElementary · 792 students
- Susquehanna Twp High SchoolHigh · 767 students
- Sara Lindemuth Elementary SchoolElementary · 758 students
Other schools in Harrisburg
- Commonwealth Charter Academy CSCombined · 29,320 students
- Reach Cyber CSCombined · 5,721 students
- Central Dauphin SHSHigh · 1,966 students
- Central Dauphin East SHSHigh · 1,573 students
- Harrisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,343 students
- Dauphin County Technical SchoolHigh · 1,187 students
Nearby schools
- Harrisburg High School1.0 mi · 1,343
- Marshall Math Science Academy1.1 mi · 408
- Reach Cyber CS1.3 mi · 5,721
- Paxtang Elementary School1.4 mi · 281
- Susquehanna Twp High School1.4 mi · 767
- South Side Elementary School1.5 mi · 603
Frequently asked questions
About Susquehanna Twp Middle SchoolHow many students attend Susquehanna Twp Middle School?
Susquehanna Twp Middle School enrolls approximately 820 students in grades 06-08.
Is Susquehanna Twp Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Susquehanna Twp Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Susquehanna Twp Middle School have?
Susquehanna Twp Middle School employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Susquehanna Twp Middle School?
At Susquehanna Twp Middle School, the student body is approximately 17% White, 18% Hispanic, 32% Black, 20% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Susquehanna Twp Middle School in?
Susquehanna Twp Middle School is part of Susquehanna Township SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.