Weatherly Area MS

Weatherly Area MS operates as a rural-scale middle school in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, operated by Weatherly Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 172 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 71% below the state mean of about 594.

Within Weatherly Area SD, which oversees 3 schools and 588 students, Weatherly Area MS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Weatherly Area MS shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 10% Hispanic. Compared to Carbon County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Weatherly Area MS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Carbon County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Weatherly Area MS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.4%; actual is 34.8%, a gap of -21.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Carbon County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,554, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Carbon County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,111 students), Weatherly Area MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Weatherly Area El Sch, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Weatherly Area MS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Weatherly Area MS's enrollment has increased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 137 (now 172). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.8:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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