Liberty-Curtin El Sch

Located at 11125 N Eagle Valley Rd, in Blanchard, Pennsylvania, Liberty-Curtin El Sch is a very small primary school that teaches 151 students (grades K through 4), operated by Keystone Central SD. Enrollment runs roughly 66% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Keystone Central SD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,324 students; Liberty-Curtin El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Liberty-Curtin El Sch records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Liberty-Curtin El Sch reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Centre County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Liberty-Curtin El Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.9%; Liberty-Curtin El Sch posts 55.0%, +19.2 points above that line.

In the area at large, Centre County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,291 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Centre County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,674 students), Liberty-Curtin El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Howard El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.8 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Liberty-Curtin El Sch comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.2%.

Liberty-Curtin El Sch operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 42%: 259 students in 2018 compared to 151 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 98% to 91% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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