Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem
Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem is a primary school of cozy scale in Foxburg, Pennsylvania, overseen by Allegheny-Clarion Valley SD, serveing 304 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem sits 31% below that benchmark.
Across the 2 schools in Allegheny-Clarion Valley SD (573 students total), Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). That composition is broadly in line with Clarion County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Clarion County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.0%; this one delivers 53.1%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Clarion County indicate median household income runs about $62,649, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Clarion County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,023 students), Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Allegheny-Clarion Valley HS, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 49.0%.
Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elem's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 379 (now 304). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.
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