Middle · Pennsylvania
Swatara MS
Free meals for allSwatara MS, a public middle school in Steelton, Pennsylvania: grades 6–8, 611 students, 11.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Central Dauphin 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
- 611
- Teachers (FTE)
- 52.9
- Students per teacher
- 11.6
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 76% of middle schools in Pennsylvania
Median 12.8 · 521 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 79% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 56% of middle schools in Pennsylvania
Median 560 · 521 schools compared
Larger than 60% 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
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Central Dauphin SD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Central Dauphin SD.
Location
- Address
- 1101 Highland St, Steelton, PA 17113
- Phone
- (717)939-9363
- City or town
- Oberlin
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6–8 | 408 | 17.0 | |
Rowland AcademyFree meals for all | 7–8 | 353 | 23.4 |
| 6–8 | 820 | 17.5 | |
| 7–8 | 389 | 11.0 | |
Central Dauphin East MSFree meals for all | 6–8 | 702 | 12.5 |
| 6–8 | 834 | 14.7 |
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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