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Enrollment
399
Middle
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 421533000085
Walnut Creek Middle School
5901 Sterrettania Rd, Fairview, PA 16415 · (814) 835-5700 · Erie County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
10.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
153 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 6 | 139 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 126 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 134 | 34% |
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
Walnut Creek Middle School→McDowell High School
Based on grade levels within Millcreek Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
74.6%
PA avg 51.1% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
62.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 75 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 up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.6% | 62.6% |
| 2023-24 | 70.7% | 56.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
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 Walnut Creek Middle School
Walnut Creek Middle School's state test result (66.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Creek Middle School this school | 399 | 38.3% | 66.8% |
| Yellow Breeches Middle School Boiling Springs | 508 | 37.0% | 49.1% |
| Keystone Oaks Middle School Pittsburgh | 442 | 41.0% | 56.8% |
| South Park Middle School South Park | 580 | 32.2% | 49.2% |
| Charles H Boehm Middle School Yardley | 651 | 32.4% | 59.6% |
| Chartiers Valley Middle School Bridgeville | 751 | 43.5% | 48.3% |
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 Walnut Creek Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #55 of 479 | #2 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #46 of 513 ▲ 20 | #2 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.6% | #45 of 513 ▲ 34 | #1 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #374 of 522 | #11 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #47 of 486 | #3 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.0% | #247 of 486 | #5 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.3% | #351 of 510 | #15 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.1% | #28 of 332 | #1 of 13 |
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
399
-113 (-22%) vs 2020
-32% since 2000-01, when it was 583
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 399 | 36.9 | 10.8:1 | 38% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 423 | 40 | 10.6:1 | 36% (153) |
| 2022-23 | 449 | 39.1 | 11.5:1 | 31% (138) |
| 2020-21 | 512 | 39 | 13.1:1 | 30% (155) |
| 2017-18 | 555 | 38 | 14.6:1 | 31% (173) |
| 2015-16 | 605 | 37 | 16.4:1 | 28% (169) |
| 2010-11 | 576 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 14% (82) |
| 2000-01 | 583 | 41 | 14.2:1 | 10% (56) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walnut Creek Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (555 to 399); teachers down 3% (38 to 36.9).
About Walnut Creek Middle School
Federal records list Walnut Creek Middle School as a middle-grades school in Fairview, Pennsylvania. The school enrolls 399 students in grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 594.
The district, Millcreek Township SD, has 6,363 students enrolled across 9 schools.
White students are 77% of those enrolled at Walnut Creek Middle School. Next come 11% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 39%.
Walnut Creek Middle School reported 36.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 10.8:1. Middle schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.2:1. Roughly 38% of students at Walnut Creek Middle School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 74% average among public schools in Erie County.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Walnut Creek Middle School outscored 93%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Walnut Creek Middle School are 5.7 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (66.8% actual, 61.2% predicted).
For Erie County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $63,354 a year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Walnut Creek Middle School, Erie County has 68 public schools.
Asbury Elementary School sits about 0.1 miles from Walnut Creek Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 68.1%; Walnut Creek Middle School's is 66.8%, ranking 6th of 8.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Mid-size. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count decreased 22% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 13.1:1 to 10.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
269,052
Census ACS
Median income
$63,354
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
35,738 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Millcreek Township SD
- McDowell High SchoolHigh · 2,133 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolElementary · 691 students
- Belle Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 626 students
- Asbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- James S Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 547 students
- Tracy Elementary SchoolElementary · 515 students
Other schools in Fairview
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 707 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolMiddle · 633 students
- Fairview High SchoolHigh · 593 students
- Asbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
Other Walnut Creek Middle schools
One other US public school is named Walnut Creek Middle. Walnut Creek Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Walnut Creek Middle SchoolWEST BLOOMFIELD, MI · 641 students
Nearby schools
- Asbury Elementary School0.1 mi · 572
- McDowell High School2.3 mi · 2,133
- Grandview Elementary School2.8 mi · 691
- Westlake Middle School3.2 mi · 477
- McKean Elementary School3.5 mi · 319
- Erie County Technical School4.1 mi · 2
Frequently asked questions
About Walnut Creek Middle SchoolHow many students attend Walnut Creek Middle School?
Walnut Creek Middle School enrolls approximately 399 students in grades 06-08.
Is Walnut Creek Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Walnut Creek Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Walnut Creek Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Walnut Creek Middle School is approximately 10.8:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Walnut Creek Middle School?
Student demographics at Walnut Creek Middle School are roughly 77% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 11% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Walnut Creek Middle School in?
Walnut Creek Middle School is part of Millcreek Township SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.