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Public school / Middle

Hershey Ms

Hershey, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
420759006678
District
Derry Township SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Hershey Ms is a public middle school in Hershey, Pennsylvania, run by Derry Township SD. It enrols 731 students — the 17622nd largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

731students

17622nd nationally, tied with 45

Teachers

65.0FTE

7943rd nationally, tied with 316

Students per teacher

11.2students

15144th nationally, tied with 555

Free or reduced-price lunch

26.3%percent

72503rd nationally, tied with 75

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Derry Township SD

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Hershey Hs1,093 students
  2. 2Hershey Ms731 students
  3. 3Hershey Intrmd El Sch464 students
  4. 4Hershey Primary El Sch447 students
  5. 5Hershey Early Childhood Ctr416 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Pennsylvania median across 2,956 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+43.3%
  • Teachers+85.7%
  • Students per teacher−17.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−48.6%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.