The top reported proficiency rate is 59% in Science. The lowest is 24% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Beaty-warren Ms
Beaty-Warren Middle School serves grades five through eight in Warren, Pennsylvania, and educates a student body that is almost entirely composed of white students, with the remainder spread across other racial and ethnic groups in very small numbers. The school qualifies all students for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker indicating concentrated economic need across the enrollment.
On state assessments, the school's performance runs below proficiency benchmarks in math and English language arts. In the most recent test year, roughly one quarter of students met proficiency in math and roughly one third in English language arts. Science results, from a prior test year, were substantially higher, with about three fifths of students proficient. Performance data for prior years was not available to establish whether these numbers reflect a trend or a point-in-time snapshot; state testing comparisons across years were marked unsafe to compute in the data provided.
The school is part of the Warren County School District, which underwent significant structural change in early 2025. The board voted to close two regional middle-high schools, Sheffield Area and Youngsville, at the close of the 2024-25 school year. Students in grades nine through twelve from those buildings are being reassigned: Sheffield students move to Warren Area High School and Youngsville students to Eisenhower Middle/High School beginning in 2025-26. For families living in those areas, this reshapes high school assignment permanently and adds considerably to bus commute times for some. Beaty-Warren itself was not part of this consolidation and continues to serve middle grades in Warren.
The district expects this consolidation to reduce operating costs, which enabled the board to adopt the 2025-26 budget with no property tax increase. The district has also begun rolling out new Pennsylvania science standards in grades six through eight and is restructuring reading intervention district-wide, changes a parent considering enrollment may want to discuss directly with the school to understand implementation and impact on students in their situation.
Warren itself is a small city along the Allegheny River, the county seat, with a historic downtown core anchored by civic institutions and recent private investment in outdoor recreation and riverfront development. The housing market is affordable relative to state and national benchmarks. Like much of rural northwestern Pennsylvania, the town and county have faced long-term population decline, though public and private investment in the downtown and riverfront is underway.
Beaty-Warren is located on East Third Avenue downtown. A parent or resident evaluating this school should seek out current information from the school and district directly about the proficiency numbers, the nature and pace of the new science and reading-intervention implementations, and how the district's recent consolidation may affect program breadth or scheduling at the middle level. The test data available here is recent but limited in scope and trend.
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