Mount Nittany MS

Mount Nittany MS is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle-grades schools in State College, Pennsylvania, run under State College Area SD, with 752 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Mount Nittany MS sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 11 schools in State College Area SD (6,799 students total), Mount Nittany MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Mount Nittany MS lists that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Asian, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mount Nittany MS has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at Mount Nittany MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Centre County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Mount Nittany MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.3%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Centre County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,291 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Centre County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,674 students), of which Mount Nittany MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mount Nittany El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Nittany MS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Nittany MS's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 780 (now 752). White enrollment moved from 80% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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