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Titusville Middle School
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Titusville Middle School
Titusville Middle School operates as a low-enrollment junior high in Titusville, Pennsylvania, operated by Titusville Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 411 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 594.
Across the 6 schools in Titusville Area SD (1,802 students total), Titusville Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Titusville Middle School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Titusville Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.8%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Crawford County) records that median household income runs about $60,476, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Crawford County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students), Titusville Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Titusville High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Titusville Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 450 students in 2018 compared to 411 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.
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