Middle Schools in South Western School District

The South Western School District in Pennsylvania has one middle school, Emory H Markle Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. While the school has a relatively large student population of 1,028, its academic performance is generally below the district and state averages.

Emory H Markle Middle School's statewide ranking has declined over the past three years, from 274th out of 883 Pennsylvania middle schools in 2021-2022 to 425th out of 891 in 2023-2024. The school's proficiency rates on PSSA tests in Math (30.3%) and English Language Arts (49.8%) are lower than the district (36.9% and 52.1%) and state (40.4% and 53%) averages, though its Science proficiency rate (53.5%) is higher than the district (52.7%) and state (54.5%) averages. Additionally, the school's dropout rate of 1.6% is slightly higher than the state average.

While the school has a relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch (34.34%), indicating a higher proportion of students from low-income families, its per-student spending for the 2021-2022 school year was $14,769, which is higher than the state average. The school's student-teacher ratio of 14.4 is also slightly lower than the state average. These factors suggest that the district is investing resources in the school, but the academic performance does not yet reflect significant improvements.