Public school / Middle
Marshall Math Science Academy
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 421158000981
- District
- Harrisburg City SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Marshall Math Science Academy is a public middle school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, run by Harrisburg City SD. It enrols 403 students — the 50432nd largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.
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
403
Teachers
6.0
Students per teacher
67.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.3%
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.
Within Harrisburg City 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.
- 1Harrisburg Hs1,230 students
- 2Benjamin Franklin Sch786 students
- 3Melrose Sch597 students
- 4Rowland Academy588 students
- 5Foose Sch535 students
- 6Camp Curtin Academy482 students
- 7Scott Sch461 students
- 8Marshall Math Science Academy403 students
- Enrollment−21.0%
- Teachers−82.9%
- Students per teacher+397.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+93.9%
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