Summary:
The 15541 zip code is home to a single middle school, Shanksville-Stonycreek Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. This small school, with just 60 students, is part of the Shanksville-Stonycreek School District, which is ranked 412 out of 606 school districts in Pennsylvania and has a 2 out of 5 star rating.
Shanksville-Stonycreek Middle School has seen a decline in its statewide ranking in recent years, dropping from 265 out of 893 Pennsylvania middle schools in 2022-2023 to 387 out of 891 in 2023-2024 and 422 out of 873 in 2024-2025. The school's academic performance is mixed, with significantly below-average math proficiency rates but relatively stronger English Language Arts (ELA) and science proficiency. While the school's science proficiency rate of 73.3% in 8th grade is significantly higher than the state average of 54.5%, its math proficiency rates range from 27.3% to 29.4% across different grade levels, compared to the state average of 30.5% to 37.8%.
With a small student-teacher ratio of 13.3 to 1, Shanksville-Stonycreek Middle School may face both advantages and challenges in terms of student-teacher interactions, extracurricular offerings, and resource allocation. However, the lack of data on the school's free/reduced lunch rate makes it difficult to assess the socioeconomic demographics of the student population and how that may be impacting the school's performance. Overall, the data suggests that Shanksville-Stonycreek Middle School is a small, underperforming school that needs to focus on improving its math instruction and curriculum to bring its scores up to par with the state average.
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