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Enrollment
780
Middle
DISTRICT 767 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILSON SD·NCES 422658006981
Wilson West Middle School
450 Faust Road, Sinking Spring, PA 19608 · (610) 670-0180 · Berks County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL780 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% 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.
- C+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
12.4:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
259 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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 | 255 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 266 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 259 | 33% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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 West Middle School→Wilson High School
Based on grade levels within Wilson SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
56.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.8pp since 2023
Math
46.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.6% | 46.1% |
| 2023-24 | 64.4% | 45.5% |
% 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
55.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 West Middle School
Wilson West Middle School's state test result (55.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson West Middle School this school | 780 | 33.2% | 55.2% |
| Phoenixville Area Middle School Phoenixville | 963 | 33.0% | 55.2% |
| Lower Macungie Middle School Macungie | 1,041 | 40.7% | 56.2% |
| Avon Grove Middle School West Grove | 1,131 | 31.2% | 59.2% |
| Fleetwood Middle School Fleetwood | 659 | 38.4% | 45.9% |
| Orefield Middle School Orefield | 1,034 | 34.5% | 59.6% |
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 West Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Berks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.2% | #150 of 479 | #3 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #150 of 513 ▲ 1 | #5 of 26 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.6% | #189 of 513 ▼ 35 | #3 of 26 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 780 | #125 of 522 | #8 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #195 of 486 | #10 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #128 of 486 | #7 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.2% | #387 of 510 | #24 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.7% | #65 of 131 | #5 of 8 |
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
780
+64 (+9%) vs 2020
+107% since 1990-91, when it was 377
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 780 | 62.8 | 12.4:1 | 33% (259) |
| 2023-24 | 752 | 57 | 13.2:1 | 34% (259) |
| 2022-23 | 739 | 57 | 13.0:1 | 31% (230) |
| 2020-21 | 716 | 55 | 13.0:1 | 31% (219) |
| 2017-18 | 724 | 53.1 | 13.6:1 | 23% (170) |
| 2015-16 | 784 | 52 | 15.1:1 | 26% (207) |
| 2010-11 | 752 | 46 | 16.4:1 | 17% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 603 | 38 | 15.9:1 | 5% (33) |
| 1990-91 | 377 | 24 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilson West Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (724 to 780); teachers up 18% (53.1 to 62.8).
About Wilson West Middle School
Families in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, are served by Wilson West Middle School, a mid-sized middle-grades school. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 780 students. The school is 31% larger than the average for middle schools in Pennsylvania.
Wilson West Middle School is one school in an 8-school district, Wilson SD, which enrolls 6,444 students.
The student body at Wilson West Middle School is 62% White. It is also 24% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 55, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.4:1. The school has 62.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across middle schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is 13.2:1. Federal data show 33% of students (259) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 67% average for public schools in Berks County is 34 points higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Wilson West Middle School lands at B, ahead of 60% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Wilson West Middle School is 8.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools.
The school's county is Berks County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $79,777 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Wilson West Middle School shares Berks County with 94 other public schools.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Green Valley Elementary School, is the closest to Wilson West Middle School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Wilson West Middle School is 7th of 9 on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a increase of 64 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Berks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
433,015
Census ACS
Median income
$79,777
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
62,375 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wilson SD
- Wilson High SchoolHigh · 2,133 students
- Wilson Southern Middle SchoolMiddle · 753 students
- Spring Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Whitfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 573 students
- Shiloh Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- Cornwall Terrace Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
Other schools in Sinking Spring
- Wilson Southern Middle SchoolMiddle · 753 students
- Shiloh Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- Cornwall Terrace Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
- Green Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 505 students
Nearby schools
- Green Valley Elementary School0.2 mi · 505
- Conrad Weiser East Elementary School1.8 mi · 449
- Whitfield Elementary School2.3 mi · 573
- Wilson Southern Middle School2.4 mi · 753
- Cornwall Terrace Elementary School2.4 mi · 553
- Wilson High School2.5 mi · 2,133
Frequently asked questions
About Wilson West Middle SchoolHow large is Wilson West Middle School?
Wilson West Middle School enrolls approximately 780 students in grades 06-08.
Is Wilson West Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wilson West Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Wilson West Middle School have?
Wilson West Middle School employs 63 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Wilson West Middle School?
Student demographics at Wilson West Middle School are roughly 62% White, 24% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Wilson West Middle School in?
Wilson West Middle School is part of Wilson SD.
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