Miles Township El Sch

Miles Township El Sch, a micro-enrollment elementary school in Rebersburg, Pennsylvania, part of Penns Valley Area SD, hosts 86 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 81% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Within Penns Valley Area SD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,271 students, Miles Township El Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Miles Township El Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Miles Township El Sch has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 62% of students at Miles Township El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Centre County's rate of about 31%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Miles Township 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 51.2%; Miles Township El Sch posts 74.3%, +23.1 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Centre County shows median household income runs about $74,291, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Centre County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,674 students), of which Miles Township El Sch is one.

Penns Valley Area JSHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.5 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Miles Township El Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Miles Township El Sch's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 104 (now 86). Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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