Summary:
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania has only one middle school, J.T. Lambert Intermediate School, which serves grades 6-8. The school's performance has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Pennsylvania middle schools, with a 2 out of 5 star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating below-average performance.
Academically, J.T. Lambert Intermediate School lags behind both the East Stroudsburg Area School District and the state of Pennsylvania in Math and English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency across all grade levels. In 2024-2025, the school's Math proficiency rates ranged from 16.6% to 22.5%, compared to the state average of 30.5% to 37.8%. Similarly, the school's ELA proficiency rates ranged from 37% to 47.6%, compared to the state average of 49.2% to 50.8%. The school's Science proficiency rates in 8th grade (49.3% in 2023-2024) are also lower than the district (48.7%) and state (54.5%) averages.
Despite the school's higher per-student spending of $19,878 for the 2022-2023 school year, which is above the state average, its academic performance remains below district and state benchmarks. The school also has a relatively high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (55.33% in 2023-2024), indicating a higher proportion of students from low-income families. These factors suggest that the school may face significant socioeconomic challenges that could be impacting its academic outcomes, and that simply increasing funding may not be the sole solution to improving student performance.
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