Mowrie A Ebner El Sch

Mowrie An Ebner El Sch, a compact primary school in Altoona, Pennsylvania, run under Altoona Area SD, educates 349 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Altoona Area SD comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 6,852 students; Mowrie An Ebner El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mowrie An Ebner El Sch reports that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Mowrie An Ebner El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Blair County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mowrie An Ebner El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Blair County put median household income runs about $62,382, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Blair County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,692 students), of which Mowrie An Ebner El Sch is one.

Baker El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mowrie An Ebner El Sch comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Mowrie An Ebner El Sch's enrollment has contracted 43% since 2018, when it stood at 610 (now 349). White enrollment moved from 87% to 77% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.