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Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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%.
About Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center
Set in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center is an average-sized K-5 school, run under Tunkhannock Area SD. It enrolls 614 students across grades 3 through 6. That puts it 39% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.
Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center is one of 4 schools operated by Tunkhannock Area SD, a district that teaches 1,981 students overall.
On demographics, Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center records that nearly all students (95%) are White. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wyoming County (around 73%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.3%; this one delivers 48.4%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Wyoming County) reports that median household earnings sit near $72,460, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Wyoming County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,913 students), Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Tunkhannock STEM Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.3%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
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