Middle · Pennsylvania
Hershey MS
Hershey MS, a public middle school in Hershey, Pennsylvania: grades 6–8, 742 students, 11.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Derry Township SD.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 742
- Teachers (FTE)
- 64.5
- Students per teacher
- 11.5
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 79% of middle schools in Pennsylvania
Median 12.8 · 521 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 80% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 71% of middle schools in Pennsylvania
Median 560 · 521 schools compared
Larger than 73% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Derry Township SD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Derry Township SD.
Location
- Address
- 500 Homestead Rd, Hershey, PA 17033
- Phone
- (717)531-2222
- City or town
- Hershey
- County
- Dauphin County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Palmyra Area MSFree meals for all | 6–8 | 820 | 13.6 |
| 6–8 | 781 | 11.5 | |
| 6–8 | 534 | 11.6 | |
| 7–8 | 235 | 15.8 | |
Central Dauphin East MSFree meals for all | 6–8 | 702 | 12.5 |
| 6–8 | 827 | 13.5 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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