Enrollment
414
Elementary
DISTRICT 504 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOLLIDAYSBURG AREA SD·NCES 421194007121
Charles W Longer Elementary School
1320 Union St, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648 · (814) 695-4431 · Blair County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL414 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 65% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
215 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 69 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 20% smaller than its 6th grade class (69).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Hollidaysburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
58.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -10.4pp since 2023
Math
56.4%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.2% | 56.4% |
| 2023-24 | 68.6% | 56.8% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Charles W Longer Elementary School
Charles W Longer Elementary School's state test result (62.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles W Longer Elementary School this school | 414 | 51.9% | 62.4% |
| Burgettstown El Center Burgettstown | 430 | 52.6% | 57.0% |
| Clarion-Limestone Elementary School Strattanville | 419 | 53.5% | 67.5% |
| Brockway Area Elementary School Brockway | 433 | 52.0% | 67.2% |
| Northern Bedford Co Elementary School Loysburg | 414 | 53.6% | 57.4% |
| Sheridan Terrace Elementary School North Huntingdon | 417 | 49.9% | 77.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Charles W Longer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Blair County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #510 of 1,396 | #6 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #638 of 1,511 ▼ 61 | #7 of 16 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #482 of 1,511 ▼ 106 | #5 of 16 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 414 | #823 of 1,638 | #8 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #1,268 of 1,528 | #16 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.2% | #1,326 of 1,531 | #10 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.9% | #963 of 1,600 | #14 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.5% | #230 of 1,045 | #6 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
414
-24 (-5%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 806
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 414 | 27.5 | 15.1:1 | 52% (215) |
| 2023-24 | 393 | 29.3 | 13.4:1 | 55% (215) |
| 2022-23 | 395 | 26.3 | 15.0:1 | 54% (212) |
| 2020-21 | 438 | 30 | 14.6:1 | 44% (193) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 45% (241) |
| 2015-16 | 546 | 35 | 15.6:1 | 46% (253) |
| 2010-11 | 341 | 24 | 14.2:1 | 39% (134) |
| 2000-01 | 396 | 28 | 14.1:1 | 24% (97) |
| 1990-91 | 806 | 42 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Charles W Longer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (534 to 414); teachers down 21% (35 to 27.5).
About Charles W Longer Elementary School
Charles W Longer Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. The school offers kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 414 students.
Charles W Longer Elementary School is one of 5 schools in Hollidaysburg Area SD, which enrolls 3,061 students in total.
By race and ethnicity, Charles W Longer Elementary School is 93% White. The next largest groups are 4% multiracial. In Blair County overall, the White share is about 92%. A diversity index of 14% means there is a 14% chance two randomly chosen students at Charles W Longer Elementary School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Charles W Longer Elementary School is 15.1:1, based on 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Charles W Longer Elementary School counts 52% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Blair County is 74%.
On the allk12 Grade, Charles W Longer Elementary School lands at B+, ahead of 65% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Charles W Longer Elementary School is 7.1 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools.
Census data for Blair County show median household income comes to about $62,382, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county has 33 public schools and about 15,692 students.
About 0.2 miles separate Charles W Longer Elementary School from the closest public school, Hollidaysburg Area Junior High School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Charles W Longer Elementary School is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Small: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
In 2020-21, Charles W Longer Elementary School enrolled 438 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 414.
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Blair County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
121,277
Census ACS
Median income
$62,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
15,692 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in Hollidaysburg Area SD
- Hollidaysburg Area SHSHigh · 793 students
- Hollidaysburg Area Junior High SchoolMiddle · 756 students
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Other schools in Hollidaysburg
- Hollidaysburg Area SHSHigh · 793 students
- Hollidaysburg Area Junior High SchoolMiddle · 756 students
- Frankstown Elementary SchoolElementary · 622 students
Nearby schools
- Hollidaysburg Area Junior High School0.2 mi · 756
- Hollidaysburg Area SHS0.2 mi · 793
- Frankstown Elementary School2.1 mi · 622
- Central Pennsylvania Digital Learning Foundation CS2.2 mi · 194
- Foot of Ten Elementary School3.0 mi · 476
- Baker Elementary School3.3 mi · 263
Frequently asked questions
About Charles W Longer Elementary SchoolHow large is Charles W Longer Elementary School?
Charles W Longer Elementary School enrolls approximately 414 students in grades KG-06.
Is Charles W Longer Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Charles W Longer Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Charles W Longer Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Charles W Longer Elementary School is approximately 15.1:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Charles W Longer Elementary School?
At Charles W Longer Elementary School, the student body is approximately 93% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Charles W Longer Elementary School public or private?
Charles W Longer Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hollidaysburg Area SD.
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