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Enrollment
643
Middle
DISTRICT 418 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILSON AREA SD·NCES 422655006785
Wilson Area Intermediate School
2400 Firmstone St, Easton, PA 18042 · (484) 373-6110 · Northampton County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL643 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- B-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
13.1:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
366 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 157 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 143 | 22% |
| Grade 7 | 189 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 154 | 24% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
Wilson Area Intermediate School→Wilson Area High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wilson Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
51.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -8.2pp since 2023
Math
32.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.7% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 59.9% | 34.9% |
% 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
45.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Wilson Area Intermediate School
Wilson Area Intermediate School's state test result (45.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Area Intermediate School this school | 643 | 56.9% | 45.8% |
| Nitschmann Middle School Bethlehem | 731 | 48.8% | 42.5% |
| Wilson Southern Middle School Sinking Spring | 753 | 45.9% | 43.6% |
| East Hills Middle School Bethlehem | 966 | 52.7% | 36.2% |
| West York Area Middle School York | 645 | 55.5% | 34.6% |
| Middletown Area Middle School Middletown | 534 | 60.7% | 38.3% |
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 Wilson Area Intermediate School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northampton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #276 of 479 | #7 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #305 of 513 ▼ 31 | #6 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #255 of 513 ▼ 42 | #5 of 12 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 643 | #206 of 522 | #7 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #258 of 486 | #6 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.7% | #38 of 486 | #2 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.9% | #207 of 510 | #4 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.0% | #142 of 332 | #5 of 9 |
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
643
-84 (-12%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 595
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 643 | 49.2 | 13.1:1 | 57% (366) |
| 2023-24 | 658 | 49.2 | 13.4:1 | 56% (366) |
| 2022-23 | 676 | 47.9 | 14.1:1 | 49% (334) |
| 2020-21 | 727 | 45 | 16.2:1 | 50% (362) |
| 2017-18 | 731 | 49 | 14.9:1 | 53% (384) |
| 2015-16 | 702 | 47 | 14.9:1 | 52% (364) |
| 2010-11 | 494 | 41 | 12.1:1 | 33% (165) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 22% (119) |
| 1990-91 | 595 | 36 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilson Area Intermediate School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (731 to 643); teachers unchanged (49 to 49.2).
About Wilson Area Intermediate School
Wilson Area Intermediate School is a mid-sized middle school in Easton, Pennsylvania, (ZIP code 18042). It had 643 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 5 through 8.
Wilson Area Intermediate School is one of 5 schools in Wilson Area SD, which enrolls 2,091 students in total.
The largest group at Wilson Area Intermediate School is White students, at 44%. Smaller groups are 35% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Northampton County is roughly 74% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wilson Area Intermediate School scores 67%.
The school had 49.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1. It is about the same as the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 57%.
Wilson Area Intermediate School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 45% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
Wilson Area Intermediate School is 7.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (45.8% versus 53.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
The school is in Northampton County, where the median household earns about $89,184 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Wilson Area Intermediate School shares Northampton County with 59 other public schools.
The closest school to Wilson Area Intermediate School is Avona Elementary School, located about 0.2 miles away. Wilson Area Intermediate School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: Wilson Area Intermediate School ranks 5th of 9 nearby schools, at 45.8% versus a 44.3% average.
Federal data place Wilson Area Intermediate School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 643, down from 727 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 16.2 in 2020-21 to 13.1 in 2024-25.
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Northampton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
318,580
Census ACS
Median income
$89,184
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
38,316 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wilson Area SD
- Wilson Area High SchoolHigh · 709 students
- Wilson Borough Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Williams Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 249 students
- Avona Elementary SchoolElementary · 205 students
Other schools in Easton
- Easton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Easton Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,879 students
- Wilson Area High SchoolHigh · 709 students
- Paxinosa Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- Shawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Cheston Elementary SchoolElementary · 559 students
Nearby schools
- Avona Elementary School0.2 mi · 205
- Wilson Area High School0.9 mi · 709
- Easton Area High School0.9 mi · 2,778
- Wilson Borough Elementary School0.9 mi · 285
- Cheston Elementary School1.3 mi · 559
- Paxinosa Elementary School1.6 mi · 572
Frequently asked questions
About Wilson Area Intermediate SchoolHow large is Wilson Area Intermediate School?
Wilson Area Intermediate School enrolls approximately 643 students in grades 05-08.
What grades does Wilson Area Intermediate School serve?
Wilson Area Intermediate School serves grades 05-08.
How many students per teacher at Wilson Area Intermediate School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Wilson Area Intermediate School.
How diverse is Wilson Area Intermediate School?
Wilson Area Intermediate School reports a student body of 44% White, 35% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Wilson Area Intermediate School public or private?
Wilson Area Intermediate School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wilson Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.