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Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch
Set in Hawley, Pennsylvania, Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch is a medium-sized K-5 school, part of Wallenpaupack Area SD. It serves 474 students across grades 3 through 5.
Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Wallenpaupack Area SD, a district that caters to 2,759 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Pike County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Pike County's rate of about 63%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 35.4%; actual is 61.9%, +26.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, census data for Pike County shows median household earnings sit near $81,323, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Pike County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,615 students), Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch is one campus in the mix.
Wallenpaupack Area MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 62.2%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Wallenpaupack North Intrmd Sch's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 474). Class-load math has widened: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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