Mountaintop Area El Sch

Mountaintop Area El Sch is one of the one-room-style K-5 schools in Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Bald Eagle Area SD, with 104 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Mountaintop Area El Sch sits 77% leaner than that benchmark.

Mountaintop Area El Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Bald Eagle Area SD, a district that serves 1,482 students overall.

Demographically, Mountaintop Area El Sch shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Mountaintop Area El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at Mountaintop Area El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Centre County's rate of about 31%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mountaintop Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +8.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Centre County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,291 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Centre County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,674 students), Mountaintop Area El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wingate El Sch, around 9.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Mountaintop Area El Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 128 students in 2018 compared to 104 in 2025.

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