Tussey Mountain MS

Located at 199 Front St, in Saxton, Pennsylvania, Tussey Mountain MS is a low-enrollment middle school that hosts 272 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by Tussey Mountain SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Tussey Mountain MS sits 54% smaller than that benchmark.

Tussey Mountain SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 915 students; Tussey Mountain MS is among them.

Demographically, Tussey Mountain MS logs that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Tussey Mountain MS has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Tussey Mountain MS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bedford County (around 65%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tussey Mountain MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.9%; this one delivers 32.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bedford County indicate median household income runs about $59,992, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Bedford County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,951 students), of which Tussey Mountain MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Tussey Mountain HS, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Tussey Mountain MS. On composite proficiency, Tussey Mountain MS comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 295 students in 2018 compared to 272 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.