Summary:
The South Side Area School District in Pennsylvania has only one middle school, South Side Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school has shown steady improvement in its academic performance, with its statewide ranking rising from 372nd out of 893 Pennsylvania middle schools in 2022-2023 to 243rd out of 873 in 2024-2025, earning a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.
South Side Middle School's proficiency rates in PSSA Math and English Language Arts (ELA) are generally on par with or slightly below the district and state averages, with some variations across grade levels. In 2024-2025, the school's PSSA Math proficiency rate for all grades was 37.1%, compared to 41.5% for the district and 41.7% for the state, while its PSSA ELA proficiency rate was 56.5%, higher than the district's 52.7% and the state's 48.5%. The school's PSSA Science proficiency rate for 8th grade in 2023-2024 was 57.8%, lower than the district's 70.2% and the state's 65.8%.
With a relatively small student population of 189 and a low dropout rate of 1.4% in 2023-2024, South Side Middle School has a student-teacher ratio of 10.1 and per-student spending of $26,870 for the 2022-2023 school year. The South Side Area School District as a whole is ranked 166th out of 606 school districts in Pennsylvania and is rated 4 stars out of 5 by SchoolDigger.
Thank you for your feedback!