Middle · Pennsylvania
Rice Avenue MS
Free meals for allRice Avenue MS, a public middle school in Girard, Pennsylvania: grades 5–8, 443 students, 10.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Girard 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
- 443
- Teachers (FTE)
- 40.7
- Students per teacher
- 10.9
- Grades
- 5–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 87% of middle schools in Pennsylvania
Median 12.8 · 521 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 85% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 65% of middle schools in Pennsylvania
Median 560 · 521 schools compared
Smaller than 59% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Pennsylvania's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Pennsylvania: 49%63%proficient
+4.1 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 76% of middle schools in Pennsylvania
Median 51% · 521 middle schools compared
401 students tested, grades 3–8 · Pennsylvania System of School Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Pennsylvania: 42%55%proficient
+7.3 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 83% of middle schools in Pennsylvania
Median 37% · 521 middle schools compared
401 students tested, grades 3–8 · Pennsylvania System of School Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 5–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize suburb
- Run by
- Girard SD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Girard SD.
Location
- Address
- 1100 Rice Ave, Girard, PA 16417
- Phone
- (814)774-5604
- City or town
- Girard
- County
- Erie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5–8 | 633 | 14.2 | |
Northwestern MSFree meals for all | 6–8 | 266 | 12.0 |
| 6–8 | 399 | 10.8 | |
| 6–8 | 477 | 11.9 | |
| 5–8 | 652 | 15.7 | |
Conneaut Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 361 | 16.4 |
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).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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