Enrollment
326
Middle
DISTRICT 347 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOLANCO SD·NCES 422181005054
Swift Middle School
1866 Robert Fulton Hwy, Quarryville, PA 17566 · (717) 548-2187 · Lancaster County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL326 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
157 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 | 104 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 101 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 121 | 37% |
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
Swift Middle School→Solanco High School
Based on grade levels within Solanco SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
41.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.8pp since 2023
Math
19.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.7% | 19.1% |
| 2023-24 | 48.5% | 21.6% |
% 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
35.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% 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 Swift Middle School
Swift Middle School's state test result (35.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swift Middle School this school | 326 | 48.2% | 35.0% |
| Smith Middle School Quarryville | 367 | 48.0% | 32.8% |
| Tuscarora Middle School Mifflintown | 323 | 52.6% | 31.3% |
| Palmerton Area Junior High School Palmerton | 261 | 48.3% | 47.2% |
| Bangor Area Middle School Bangor | 421 | 49.4% | 48.3% |
| Wayne Highlands Middle School Honesdale | 408 | 51.0% | 66.3% |
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 Swift Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lancaster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #385 of 479 | #19 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.1% | #413 of 513 ▼ 4 | #20 of 26 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.7% | #379 of 513 ▼ 29 | #19 of 26 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 326 | #413 of 522 | #23 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #30 of 486 | #3 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.5% | #336 of 486 | #26 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.2% | #276 of 510 | #12 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #51 of 332 | #3 of 15 |
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
326
-15 (-4%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 505
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 326 | 31.9 | 10.2:1 | 48% (157) |
| 2023-24 | 341 | 33.9 | 10.1:1 | 46% (157) |
| 2022-23 | 338 | 33.8 | 10.0:1 | 41% (137) |
| 2020-21 | 341 | 32 | 10.7:1 | 40% (136) |
| 2017-18 | 418 | 29.6 | 14.1:1 | 37% (154) |
| 2015-16 | 393 | 30 | 13.1:1 | 42% (165) |
| 2010-11 | 443 | 31 | 14.3:1 | 35% (154) |
| 2000-01 | 496 | 29 | 17.1:1 | 17% (84) |
| 1990-91 | 505 | 26 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Swift Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (418 to 326); teachers up 8% (29.6 to 31.9).
About Swift Middle School
At 1866 Robert Fulton Hwy in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, Swift Middle School operates as a low-enrollment middle school. School enrollment was 326 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 8. The average among middle schools in Pennsylvania is roughly 594 students; this school is 45% smaller than that.
Swift Middle School is one school in a 7-school district, Solanco SD, which enrolls 3,000 students.
The student body at Swift Middle School is 84% White. The rest of enrollment is 11% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. That is close to the 82% White share among all Lancaster County residents. The school's diversity index is 27%, meaning two students picked at random have a 27% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school employs the equivalent of 31.9 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 10.2:1. That is lower than the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 48%.
The allk12 Grade for Swift Middle School is D. Compared with Pennsylvania public middle schools, the school scored higher than 13% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in Pennsylvania with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 57.0%. Swift Middle School posts 35.0%, 22.0 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Lancaster County has these Census figures: the median household income is $86,959, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Lancaster County is home to 114 public schools and about 62,719 public school students.
Of nearby public schools, Clermont Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.1 miles. Swift Middle School has 2 other public schools within five miles. Swift Middle School comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Swift Middle School is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment at Swift Middle School declined 4% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 341 to 326 students.
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Lancaster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
557,931
Census ACS
Median income
$86,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
114
62,719 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Solanco SD
- Solanco High SchoolHigh · 980 students
- Clermont Elementary SchoolElementary · 398 students
- Providence Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
- Smith Middle SchoolMiddle · 367 students
- Quarryville Elementary SchoolElementary · 346 students
- Bart-Colerain Elementary SchoolElementary · 197 students
Other schools in Quarryville
- Solanco High SchoolHigh · 980 students
- Clermont Elementary SchoolElementary · 398 students
- Smith Middle SchoolMiddle · 367 students
- Quarryville Elementary SchoolElementary · 346 students
Other Swift Middle schools
One other US public school is named Swift Middle. Swift Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Swift Middle SchoolOakville, CT · 591 students
Nearby schools
- Clermont Elementary School0.1 mi · 398
- Solanco High School3.9 mi · 980
- Quarryville Elementary School5.8 mi · 346
- Smith Middle School5.9 mi · 367
- Bart-Colerain Elementary School7.0 mi · 197
- Providence Elementary School7.9 mi · 386
Frequently asked questions
About Swift Middle SchoolHow many students attend Swift Middle School?
Swift Middle School enrolls approximately 326 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Swift Middle School serve?
Swift Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Swift Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Swift Middle School is approximately 10.2:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Swift Middle School?
At Swift Middle School, the student body is approximately 84% White, 11% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Swift Middle School public or private?
Swift Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Solanco SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.