Wilson MS

As a medium-sized junior high in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Wilson MS enrolls 604 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Carlisle Area SD.

Carlisle Area SD comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,087 students; Wilson MS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wilson MS records that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Black, 11% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Wilson MS reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Wilson MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 38.2%, a residual of -16.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cumberland County put the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Cumberland County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), Wilson MS is one campus in the mix.

Bellaire El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wilson MS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.1%.

Wilson MS operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 606 students in 2018 compared to 604 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 71% to 56%.

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