Upper Merion Area MS

Upper Merion Area MS is a sprawling middle school in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Upper Merion Area SD. The school enrolls 1,348 students in grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Upper Merion Area MS sits 127% above that benchmark.

Upper Merion Area SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,345 students; Upper Merion Area MS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Upper Merion Area MS shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 16% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Upper Merion Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of -6.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $113,915, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Upper Merion Area MS is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students).

Nearest neighbor: Upper Merion Area HS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Upper Merion Area MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Upper Merion Area MS at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 58.8%.

Upper Merion Area MS operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 5%: 1,285 students in 2018 compared to 1,348 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 43% across the same window.

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