Enrollment
302
Middle
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UPPER DAUPHIN AREA SD·NCES 422436006339
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School
5668 State Route 209, Lykens, PA 17048 · (717) 362-8177 · Dauphin County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL302 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% 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
13.1:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
167 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 5 | 72 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 77 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 75 | 25% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · 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
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School→Upper Dauphin Area High School
Based on grade levels within Upper Dauphin Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
32.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.9pp since 2023
Math
28.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 32 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.3% | 28.4% |
| 2023-24 | 39.2% | 28.4% |
% 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
34.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% 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 Upper Dauphin Area Middle School
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School's state test result (34.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Dauphin Area Middle School this school | 302 | 55.3% | 34.0% |
| North East Middle School North East | 322 | 59.0% | 54.3% |
| Halifax Area Middle School Halifax | 263 | 51.7% | 44.0% |
| Freedom Area Middle School Freedom | 356 | 55.3% | 37.0% |
| Schuylkill Haven Middle School Schuylkill Haven | 255 | 54.9% | 34.0% |
| Riverside Middle School Ellwood City | 307 | 55.4% | 55.0% |
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 Upper Dauphin Area Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Dauphin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #392 of 479 | #8 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #349 of 513 ▲ 7 | #6 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #434 of 513 ▼ 6 | #10 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 302 | #430 of 522 | #12 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #260 of 486 | #7 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.0% | #365 of 486 | #13 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.3% | #220 of 510 | #9 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.2% | #98 of 332 | #2 of 6 |
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
302
-16 (-5%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 476
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 302 | 23.1 | 13.1:1 | 55% (167) |
| 2023-24 | 314 | 23.2 | 13.5:1 | 53% (167) |
| 2022-23 | 312 | 23.6 | 13.2:1 | 48% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 318 | 22 | 14.4:1 | 99% (315) |
| 2017-18 | 356 | 22.6 | 15.7:1 | 51% (183) |
| 2015-16 | 375 | 21 | 17.9:1 | 48% (179) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 22 | 17.5:1 | 37% (143) |
| 2000-01 | 405 | 34 | 11.9:1 | 15% (59) |
| 1990-91 | 476 | 33 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Upper Dauphin Area Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (356 to 302); teachers up 2% (22.6 to 23.1).
About Upper Dauphin Area Middle School
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School is a middle-grades school located in Lykens, Pennsylvania, in Dauphin County. It enrolls 302 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 5 through 8. The school is 49% below the average for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
A total of 3 schools make up Upper Dauphin Area SD, with 1,006 students enrolled.
The share of White students at Upper Dauphin Area Middle School is 87%. Enrollment also includes 6% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. The school's White share is 24 points above the 63% share among Dauphin County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 23%.
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1, with 23.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 55% at Upper Dauphin Area Middle School.
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 14% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 19.9 points (34.0% versus 53.9%), a bottom-10% result in Pennsylvania on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Dauphin County show that the median household earns about $76,242 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Dauphin County has 75 public schools with about 72,718 students, including Upper Dauphin Area Middle School.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates Upper Dauphin Area Middle School from the closest public school, Upper Dauphin Area Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: 2. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 43.9%; Upper Dauphin Area Middle School's is 34.0%, ranking 6th of 8.
The school's federal locale classification is Rural: Distant.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 16 students, from 318 to 302. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 14.4:1 to 13.1:1.
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Upper Dauphin Area SD
- Upper Dauphin Area Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- Upper Dauphin Area High SchoolHigh · 331 students
Nearby schools
- Upper Dauphin Area Elementary School0.0 mi · 373
- Upper Dauphin Area High School3.3 mi · 331
- Line Mountain Middle School7.9 mi · 319
- Line Mountain High School7.9 mi · 311
- Williams Valley JSHS9.1 mi · 433
- Williams Valley Elementary School9.5 mi · 497
Frequently asked questions
About Upper Dauphin Area Middle SchoolHow many students attend Upper Dauphin Area Middle School?
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School enrolls approximately 302 students in grades 05-08.
Is Upper Dauphin Area Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
How many teachers does Upper Dauphin Area Middle School have?
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Upper Dauphin Area Middle School?
Student demographics at Upper Dauphin Area Middle School are roughly 87% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Upper Dauphin Area Middle School?
Upper Dauphin Area Middle School is overseen by Upper Dauphin Area SD in Dauphin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.