Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

St Marys Area Middle School, Saint Marys, PA

CEP schoolSt Marys Area Middle School is a public middle school in Saint Marys, part of Saint Marys Area SD. It enrolled 459 students in 2024-25, with 15.8 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "St Marys Area MS".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 459
Teachers (FTE): 29.0
Students per teacher: 15.8
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 2.2 higher than the district figure of 13.6. The Pennsylvania average across schools is 13.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.8

District13.6

Pennsylvania13.5

United States15.3

School details

Address: 979 S Saint Marys Rd, Saint Marys, PA 15857
Phone: (814)834-7831
District: Saint Marys Area SD
County: Elk County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID: 422064001992

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 444
Reduced-price lunch: 0
Free or reduced-price lunch: 44496.7% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.