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Enrollment
413
Elementary
DISTRICT 353 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·STATE COLLEGE AREA SD·NCES 422277001358
Mount Nittany Elementary School
700 Brandywine Drive, State College, PA 16801 · (814) 272-5970 · Centre County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% 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
12.8:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
95 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
71.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -0.3pp since 2023
Math
68.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.5% | 68.1% |
| 2023-24 | 71.8% | 66.2% |
% 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
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Mount Nittany Elementary School
Mount Nittany Elementary School's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Nittany Elementary School this school | 413 | 23.0% | 72.0% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Pittsburgh | 414 | 20.5% | 81.3% |
| Evergreen Elementary School Collegeville | 465 | 24.3% | 79.8% |
| Penn Wood Elementary School West Chester | 438 | 18.7% | 70.7% |
| Park Forest Elementary School State College | 419 | 18.6% | 75.3% |
| Indian Lane Elementary School Media | 470 | 19.6% | 78.8% |
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 Mount Nittany Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Centre County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #253 of 1,396 | #8 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #313 of 1,511 ▲ 5 | #8 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.5% | #192 of 1,511 ▲ 94 | #4 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #834 of 1,638 | #4 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #692 of 1,528 | #11 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.3% | #903 of 1,531 | #7 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.0% | #1,406 of 1,600 | #13 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.7% | #138 of 450 | #3 of 7 |
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
413
+20 (+5%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 457
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 413 | 32.3 | 12.8:1 | 23% (95) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 32.8 | 12.9:1 | 22% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 430 | 32.1 | 13.4:1 | 20% (88) |
| 2020-21 | 393 | 31 | 12.7:1 | 19% (76) |
| 2017-18 | 360 | 27.1 | 13.3:1 | 30% (108) |
| 2015-16 | 334 | 26 | 12.8:1 | 29% (98) |
| 2010-11 | 339 | 22 | 15.4:1 | 29% (100) |
| 2000-01 | 405 | 22 | 18.4:1 | 11% (44) |
| 1990-91 | 457 | 25 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount Nittany Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (360 to 413); teachers up 20% (27.1 to 32.3).
About Mount Nittany Elementary School
Mount Nittany Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in State College, Pennsylvania, (ZIP code 16801). Enrollment is 413 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 5.
District-wide, State College Area SD has 11 schools and 6,799 students.
White students are the large majority at Mount Nittany Elementary School, with 80% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 7% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 2% Black. The White share in Centre County as a whole is similar, at about 84%. By the diversity index, Mount Nittany Elementary School comes in at 34%.
The school employs the equivalent of 32.3 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 12.8:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have a similar average ratio of 13.1:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 23%.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Mount Nittany 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.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Mount Nittany Elementary School is 4.2 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 72.0% actual, 67.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
Across Centre County, median household income is about $74,291, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Mount Nittany Elementary School is among the 33 public schools in Centre County.
The school nearest to Mount Nittany Elementary School is Mount Nittany Middle School, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Mount Nittany Elementary School is 5th on average proficiency.
Mount Nittany Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Small.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 413 was 5% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 393.
The Mount Nittany Elementary School community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 State College Area SD
- State College Area High SchoolHigh · 2,402 students
- Park Forest Middle SchoolMiddle · 822 students
- Mount Nittany Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Radio Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
- Park Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 360 students
Other schools in State College
- State College Area High SchoolHigh · 2,402 students
- Park Forest Middle SchoolMiddle · 822 students
- Mount Nittany Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Radio Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
- Park Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 360 students
Nearby schools
- Mount Nittany Middle School0.1 mi · 752
- Nittany Valley CS1.8 mi · 51
- Easterly Parkway Elementary School2.1 mi · 314
- State College Area High School2.6 mi · 2,402
- Spring Creek Elementary School3.0 mi · 360
- Corl Street Elementary School3.4 mi · 250
Frequently asked questions
About Mount Nittany Elementary SchoolHow large is Mount Nittany Elementary School?
Mount Nittany Elementary School enrolls approximately 413 students in grades KG-05.
Is Mount Nittany Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mount Nittany Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mount Nittany Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mount Nittany Elementary School is approximately 12.8:1 (32 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Mount Nittany Elementary School?
Mount Nittany Elementary School reports a student body of 80% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Mount Nittany Elementary School?
Mount Nittany Elementary School is overseen by State College Area SD in Centre County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.