Bala-Cynwyd MS
Bala Cynwyd, PA · Middle School · Grades 5-8
Bala-Cynwyd MS is a middle school in Bala Cynwyd, PA with 809 students enrolled and a 71% proficiency rate. Part of Lower Merion SD. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Bala-Cynwyd MS is a middle school located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. The school serves 809 students in grades 5-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 71% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
12% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Bala-Cynwyd MS is part of the Lower Merion SD in Pennsylvania.
How This School Compares
Bala-Cynwyd MS has 809 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Lower Merion SD (774 students). Its 71% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points above the district average of 68%. Compared to the Pennsylvania state average of 46%, the school performs 25 points higher. With a 10.2:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bala-Cynwyd MS has 809 students enrolled in grades 5-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 71% of students at Bala-Cynwyd MS meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Bala-Cynwyd MS is part of the Lower Merion SD in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.