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Enrollment
769
Middle
DISTRICT 717 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ERIE CITY SD·NCES 420930002025
Woodrow Wilson Middle School
718 E 28th St, Erie, PA 16504 · (814) 874-6600 · Erie County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL769 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
12.8:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
739 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 | 280 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 241 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 248 | 32% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
22.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.4pp since 2023
Math
9.3%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.2% | 9.3% |
| 2023-24 | 24.6% | 11.1% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Woodrow Wilson Middle School
Woodrow Wilson Middle School's state test result (18.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodrow Wilson Middle School this school | 769 | 96.1% | 18.0% |
| Gateway Middle School Monroeville | 1,017 | 99.6% | 47.6% |
| Pottstown Middle School Pottstown | 918 | 98.4% | 19.1% |
| Steel Valley Middle School Munhall | 429 | 98.8% | 28.7% |
| Founders Hall Middle School McKeesport | 642 | 99.1% | 15.4% |
| Benjamin Franklin Middle School Levittown | 754 | 100.0% | 26.6% |
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 Woodrow Wilson Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #454 of 479 | #15 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.3% | #471 of 513 ▼ 8 | #15 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #476 of 513 ▲ 5 | #15 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 769 | #131 of 522 | #1 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #236 of 486 | #13 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.4% | #11 of 486 | #2 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.1% | #130 of 510 | #7 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.8% | #43 of 131 | N/A |
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
769
-31 (-4%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 788
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 769 | 60 | 12.8:1 | 96% (739) |
| 2023-24 | 739 | 55 | 13.4:1 | 100% (739) |
| 2022-23 | 756 | 58 | 13.0:1 | 100% (756) |
| 2020-21 | 800 | 49 | 16.3:1 | 100% (797) |
| 2017-18 | 682 | 51.5 | 13.2:1 | 100% (682) |
| 2015-16 | 718 | 52 | 13.8:1 | 100% (718) |
| 2010-11 | 523 | 46 | 11.4:1 | 88% (459) |
| 2000-01 | 903 | 42 | 21.5:1 | 80% (719) |
| 1990-91 | 788 | 52 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (682 to 769); teachers up 17% (51.5 to 60).
About Woodrow Wilson Middle School
Woodrow Wilson Middle School is a public mid-sized middle school in Erie, Pennsylvania. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 769 students. Across middle schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 594.
Across its 15 schools, Erie City SD enrolls 10,473 students. Woodrow Wilson Middle School is one of those schools.
No group is above 50% at Woodrow Wilson Middle School; the largest is White, at 37%. After that, the student body is 35% Black, 14% multiracial, 7% Asian, and 7% Hispanic. Among all residents of Erie County, the White share is about 83%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 71%.
Teacher count: 60 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 12.8:1. The 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania is close to this figure. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 96%. Among public schools in Erie County, the average eligibility rate is 74%.
Woodrow Wilson Middle School holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 7% of Pennsylvania public middle schools.
Woodrow Wilson Middle School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 18.0%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Pennsylvania are predicted to post 36.4%, so the school is 18.4 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
In Erie County, home to about 269,052 people, median household income comes to about $63,354, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Erie County's 68 public schools enroll about 35,738 students and include Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
Lincoln Elementary School is the nearest public school to Woodrow Wilson Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 18.0% is below the 26.5% average for nearby schools.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment decreased 4% over 4 years, reaching 769 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.3:1 in 2020-21 to 12.8:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Erie City SD
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 2,501 students
- Northwest PA Collegiate AcademyHigh · 750 students
- Strong Vincent Middle SchoolMiddle · 711 students
- Pfeiffer-Burleigh SchoolElementary · 690 students
- East Middle SchoolMiddle · 672 students
- Harding SchoolElementary · 633 students
Other schools in Erie
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 2,501 students
- McDowell High SchoolHigh · 2,133 students
- Northwest PA Collegiate AcademyHigh · 750 students
- Strong Vincent Middle SchoolMiddle · 711 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolElementary · 691 students
- Pfeiffer-Burleigh SchoolElementary · 690 students
Other Woodrow Wilson Middle schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Woodrow Wilson Middle. Woodrow Wilson Middle School is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolCLIFTON, NJ · 1,255 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolEDISON, NJ · 1,206 students
- Woodrow Wilson MiddleGlendale, CA · 1,182 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMoline, IL · 860 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolCouncil Bluffs, IA · 855 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.3 mi · 347
- McKinley Elementary School0.4 mi · 504
- Northwest PA Collegiate Academy0.9 mi · 750
- Jefferson Elementary School0.9 mi · 447
- Pfeiffer-Burleigh School1.2 mi · 690
- Perseus House CS of Excellence1.2 mi · 627
Frequently asked questions
About Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolHow large is Woodrow Wilson Middle School?
Woodrow Wilson Middle School enrolls approximately 769 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Woodrow Wilson Middle School serve?
Woodrow Wilson Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Woodrow Wilson Middle School?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
How diverse is Woodrow Wilson Middle School?
Woodrow Wilson Middle School reports a student body of 37% White, 7% Hispanic, 35% Black, 7% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Woodrow Wilson Middle School in?
Woodrow Wilson Middle School is part of Erie City SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.