The top reported proficiency rate is 59% in English language arts. The lowest is 40% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Annville-cleona Ms
Annville-Cleona Middle School serves grades seven and eight in the heart of a small Pennsylvania community built around a college campus and a long, walkable Main Street. The school sits within Annville-Cleona School District, which spans Annville and Cleona townships in Lebanon County and has recently completed a secondary school addition consolidating its middle and high school facilities on one campus.
The township itself is experiencing active growth. New residential subdivisions have spread across the south side in recent years, anchored partly by major employers like a large Hershey fulfillment center that opened in 2022. Lebanon Valley College sits adjacent to the town center, giving the place a college-town quality mixed into the Pennsylvania Dutch farmland setting. Main Street remains the civic and commercial core, lined with restored brick storefronts, coffee shops, bakeries, and the Allen Theatre, though most residents rely on cars for daily errands outside the walkable downtown blocks.
The school's academic profile shows uneven performance across subjects. English language arts proficiency sits above the midpoint for Lebanon County districts, reflecting solid reading and writing work. Mathematics proficiency, by contrast, is notably lower; less than half the students scored at proficient levels on state assessments. Science proficiency, measured most recently in the prior year, sits in the middle range. Overall proficiency across tested subjects places the school above the median for its county peer group. A parent may want to look into what specific supports the school offers in mathematics and whether additional help is available for students who struggle.
About half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of economic need within the student body. The enrollment is small, around two hundred students split relatively evenly between seventh and eighth grade. The student population is predominantly white, with a growing Hispanic population making up a substantial minority. The school does not report special education or English learner counts, so information on those populations is not available from the data provided.
The district has invested in the school's physical plant. The secondary school addition completed in 2024 represents a major capital project consolidating middle and high school education on one site, a long-term facility upgrade that will serve these students through their secondary years. The district also offers the Dutchmen Virtual Academy as a full-time K-12 online option for families preferring remote schooling, a lasting program-level choice already in place.
Families considering homes in the district should be aware that the school board approved a property tax increase for 2026-27, a direct change in the cost of homeownership in this area. Housing values in Annville have risen modestly, and both purchase and rental markets appear moderately active, with new subdivisions and apartment developments continuing to appear on the township edges.
The school itself functions as a regular public middle school with no magnet or charter designation. State testing data does not include participation rates or scale scores beyond science, so a fuller picture of academic trend and depth would require further conversation with the school. The absence of free-or-reduced-lunch and racial composition breakdowns by grade or special population makes it hard to assess whether the overall school profile masks different experiences within subgroups.
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