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Enrollment
353
Elementary
DISTRICT 285 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEFONTE AREA SD·NCES 420324001340
Marion-Walker Elementary School
100 School Dr, Bellefonte, PA 16823 · (814) 357-2425 · Centre County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL353 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
12.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
95 students
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · 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 Bellefonte Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
63.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.7pp since 2023
Math
69.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.6% | 69.7% |
| 2023-24 | 69.3% | 65.1% |
% 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
70.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 Marion-Walker Elementary School
Marion-Walker Elementary School's state test result (70.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marion-Walker Elementary School this school | 353 | 26.9% | 70.4% |
| Burchfield Primary School Allison Park | 339 | 26.5% | 84.8% |
| Maxwell Elementary School Greensburg | 380 | 26.8% | 78.7% |
| Northwestern Lehigh Elementary School New Tripoli | 396 | 28.5% | 53.9% |
| Lyter Elementary School Montoursville | 382 | 31.9% | 83.5% |
| South Mountain Elementary School Dillsburg | 389 | 28.8% | 61.5% |
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 Marion-Walker Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Centre County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #285 of 1,396 | #9 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.7% | #277 of 1,511 ▲ 74 | #6 of 19 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.6% | #337 of 1,511 ▲ 23 | #10 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 353 | #1,043 of 1,638 | #8 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #653 of 1,528 | #10 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.4% | #1,370 of 1,531 | #13 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.9% | #1,364 of 1,600 | #11 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #849 of 1,045 | #9 of 11 |
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
353
-36 (-9%) vs 2020
+53% since 1990-91, when it was 230
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 353 | 27.9 | 12.7:1 | 27% (95) |
| 2023-24 | 373 | 28.9 | 12.9:1 | 25% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 404 | 29.2 | 13.8:1 | 22% (87) |
| 2020-21 | 389 | 26 | 15.0:1 | 15% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 371 | 23.3 | 15.9:1 | 16% (61) |
| 2015-16 | 348 | 24 | 14.5:1 | 18% (63) |
| 2010-11 | 383 | 24 | 16.0:1 | 27% (104) |
| 2000-01 | 337 | 14 | 24.1:1 | 18% (62) |
| 1990-91 | 230 | 14 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Marion-Walker Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (371 to 353); teachers up 20% (23.3 to 27.9).
About Marion-Walker Elementary School
Families in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, are served by Marion-Walker Elementary School, a small elementary school. It enrolled 353 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students each.
Bellefonte Area SD is the district for Marion-Walker Elementary School. It has 6 schools and 2,579 students.
White students are the large majority at Marion-Walker Elementary School, with 93% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 4% multiracial. Among people living in Centre County, the White share is about 84%. The chance that two students picked at random at Marion-Walker Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 12%.
A ratio of 12.7:1 comes from the school's 27.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have a similar average ratio of 13.1:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 27% in 2024-25.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Marion-Walker Elementary School receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Marion-Walker Elementary School is 4.3 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (70.4% versus 66.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
Centre County has these Census figures: median household income is about $74,291, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The public schools of Centre County number 33 and enroll about 13,674.
Of nearby public schools, Howard Elementary School is the closest, at about 4.5 miles. The count of other public schools within ten miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 70.4% is above the 62.5% average for nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Marion-Walker Elementary School went from 389 students to 353. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.0:1 to 12.7:1 over the same years.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Marion-Walker Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Centre County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
158,576
Census ACS
Median income
$74,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
13,674 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bellefonte Area SD
- Bellefonte Area High SchoolHigh · 850 students
- Bellefonte Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 591 students
- Bellefonte Elementary SchoolElementary · 318 students
- Benner Elementary SchoolElementary · 252 students
- Pleasant Gap Elementary SchoolElementary · 215 students
Other schools in Bellefonte
- Bellefonte Area High SchoolHigh · 850 students
- Bellefonte Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 591 students
- Bellefonte Elementary SchoolElementary · 318 students
- Benner Elementary SchoolElementary · 252 students
Nearby schools
- Howard Elementary School4.5 mi · 87
- Penns Valley Area JSHS7.0 mi · 632
- Penns Valley Area El and Intrmd School7.2 mi · 348
- Liberty-Curtin Elementary School7.5 mi · 151
- Bellefonte Area High School8.5 mi · 850
- Bellefonte Area Middle School8.5 mi · 591
Frequently asked questions
About Marion-Walker Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Marion-Walker Elementary School?
Marion-Walker Elementary School enrolls approximately 353 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Marion-Walker Elementary School serve?
Marion-Walker Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Marion-Walker Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Marion-Walker Elementary School is approximately 12.7:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Marion-Walker Elementary School?
At Marion-Walker Elementary School, the student body is approximately 93% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Black, 4% Two or more.
What district is Marion-Walker Elementary School in?
Marion-Walker Elementary School is part of Bellefonte Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.