Foot of Ten El Sch

Set in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, Foot of Ten El Sch is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under Hollidaysburg Area SD. It educates 476 students across grades K through 6.

Across the 5 schools in Hollidaysburg Area SD (3,061 students total), Foot of Ten El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Foot of Ten El Sch logs that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest looks like 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Blair County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Foot of Ten El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.4%; this one delivers 62.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Blair County) records that median household income runs about $62,382, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Blair County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,692 students), Foot of Ten El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hollidaysburg Area SHS, around 3.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Foot of Ten El Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Foot of Ten El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 58.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 554 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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