York Suburban MS

York Suburban MS operates as a moderately sized junior high in York, Pennsylvania, overseen by York Suburban SD. Current enrollment sits at 743 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% larger than the state mean of about 594.

York Suburban SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,840 students; York Suburban MS is among them.

Looking at the student body, York Suburban MS shows that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder reads as 16% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the resource side, On paper, York Suburban MS has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 45% of students at York Suburban MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below York County's rate of about 53%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, York Suburban MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.5%, the actual is 56.5%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,829 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, York County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), of which York Suburban MS is one.

East York El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around York Suburban MS. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), York Suburban MS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at York Suburban MS has contracted 6%, going from 792 students in 2018 to 743 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 73% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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