Yellow Breeches MS

Yellow Breeches MS is one of the mid-tier junior highs in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, operated by South Middleton SD, with 508 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

South Middleton SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,136 students; Yellow Breeches MS is among them.

On demographics, Yellow Breeches MS reports that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 13% Asian, 6% multiracial. Compared to Cumberland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Yellow Breeches MS has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Yellow Breeches MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.7%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of -12.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Cumberland County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,494, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Cumberland County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), of which Yellow Breeches MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Boiling Springs HS, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Yellow Breeches MS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yellow Breeches MS has remained close to its prior level, going from 510 students in 2018 to 508 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 91% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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