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Enrollment
383
Middle
DISTRICT 418 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WATTSBURG AREA SD·NCES 422508006654
Wattsburg Area Middle School
10774 Wattsburg Rd, Erie, PA 16509 · (814) 814-4153 · Erie County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL383 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
12.6:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
245 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 5 | 86 | 22% |
| Grade 6 | 100 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 98 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 99 | 26% |
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 12% · 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
Wattsburg Area Middle School→Seneca High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wattsburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
50.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.3pp since 2023
Math
42.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -6.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.7% | 42.1% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 48.3% |
% 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
53.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Wattsburg Area Middle School
Wattsburg Area Middle School's state test result (53.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wattsburg Area Middle School this school | 383 | 64.0% | 53.8% |
| Southmoreland Middle School Scottdale | 410 | 61.0% | 52.4% |
| Conneaut Area Middle School Conneaut Lake | 408 | 69.9% | 49.3% |
| Penn Cambria Middle School Gallitzin | 343 | 69.4% | 42.9% |
| Jersey Shore Area Middle School Jersey Shore | 466 | 59.0% | 51.0% |
| Titusville Middle School Titusville | 411 | 71.3% | 37.8% |
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 Wattsburg Area Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #168 of 479 | #8 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #191 of 513 ▼ 62 | #8 of 16 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #268 of 513 ▼ 101 | #12 of 16 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 383 | #383 of 522 | #12 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #206 of 486 | #11 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.6% | #471 of 486 | #16 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.0% | #188 of 510 | #8 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.9% | #176 of 332 | #6 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
383
-21 (-5%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 383 | 30.5 | 12.6:1 | 64% (245) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 33 | 12.0:1 | 62% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 409 | 30.3 | 13.5:1 | 45% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 404 | 32 | 12.6:1 | 35% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 425 | 30.3 | 14.0:1 | 34% (146) |
| 2015-16 | 409 | 29 | 14.1:1 | 36% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 492 | 30 | 16.4:1 | 38% (189) |
| 2000-01 | 544 | 24 | 22.7:1 | 24% (128) |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 30 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wattsburg Area Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (425 to 383); teachers up 1% (30.3 to 30.5).
About Wattsburg Area Middle School
Wattsburg Area Middle School operates as a low-enrollment middle-grades school in Erie, Pennsylvania. Students in grades 5 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 383 students. That compares with an average of about 594 students for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
Wattsburg Area Middle School is in Wattsburg Area SD, a district with 1,254 students across 3 schools.
A large majority of enrollment at Wattsburg Area Middle School is White, at 96%. The school is also 2% Hispanic. The White share of the county population is lower, at 83%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wattsburg Area Middle School scores 9%.
Its ratio of 12.6:1 is based on 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among middle schools in Pennsylvania is similar, at 13.2:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 64%. That is lower than the 74% average for public schools in Erie County.
Among Pennsylvania public middle schools, Wattsburg Area Middle School outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Wattsburg Area Middle School would score about 50.2%. It scores 53.8%, 3.6 points above that figure.
In the surrounding county, Erie County, median household income comes to about $63,354, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 68 public schools and about 35,738 students.
Seneca High School is the nearest public school to Wattsburg Area Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Wattsburg Area Middle School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Rural: Distant, means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 383, compared with 404 in 2020-21.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Wattsburg Area SD
- Wattsburg Area El CenterElementary · 488 students
- Seneca High SchoolHigh · 383 students
Other schools in Erie
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 2,501 students
- McDowell High SchoolHigh · 2,133 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 769 students
- Northwest PA Collegiate AcademyHigh · 750 students
- Strong Vincent Middle SchoolMiddle · 711 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolElementary · 691 students
Nearby schools
- Seneca High School0.1 mi · 383
- Wattsburg Area El Center0.3 mi · 488
- Clark Elementary School6.7 mi · 303
- Belle Valley Elementary School7.0 mi · 626
- Rolling Ridge Elementary School7.6 mi · 472
- JoAnna Connell School7.7 mi · 556
Frequently asked questions
About Wattsburg Area Middle SchoolHow large is Wattsburg Area Middle School?
Wattsburg Area Middle School enrolls approximately 383 students in grades 05-08.
Is Wattsburg Area Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wattsburg Area Middle School is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wattsburg Area Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wattsburg Area Middle School is approximately 12.6:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Wattsburg Area Middle School?
Student demographics at Wattsburg Area Middle School are roughly 96% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Wattsburg Area Middle School in?
Wattsburg Area Middle School is part of Wattsburg Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.