Enrollment
271
Elementary
DISTRICT 347 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA AREA SD·NCES 421902006239
Osceola Mills Elementary School
400 Coal St, Osceola Mills, PA 16666 · (814) 339-6812 · Clearfield County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL271 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
11.5:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
132 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 7% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Osceola Mills Elementary School→Philipsburg-Osceola Area Middle School→Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School
Based on grade levels within Philipsburg-Osceola Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
56.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.1pp since 2023
Math
59.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.2% | 59.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.3% | 62.1% |
% 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
62.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Osceola Mills Elementary School
Osceola Mills Elementary School's state test result (62.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osceola Mills Elementary School this school | 271 | 48.7% | 62.9% |
| Delta-Peach Bottom Elementary School Delta | 255 | 47.5% | 46.8% |
| Berlin Brothersvalley Elementary School Berlin | 290 | 45.2% | 56.1% |
| Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elementary School Foxburg | 304 | 52.6% | 53.1% |
| Damascus Area School Damascus | 258 | 43.4% | 69.6% |
| H W Good Elementary School Herminie | 270 | 52.6% | 65.9% |
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 Osceola Mills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Clearfield County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #495 of 1,396 | #3 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.9% | #537 of 1,511 ▼ 93 | #4 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.2% | #545 of 1,511 ▼ 28 | #4 of 9 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 271 | #1,341 of 1,638 | #7 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #307 of 1,528 | #4 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.8% | #1,504 of 1,531 | #7 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.7% | #1,020 of 1,600 | #9 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #950 of 1,045 | #7 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
271
-12 (-4%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 230
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 271 | 23.6 | 11.5:1 | 49% (132) |
| 2023-24 | 274 | 24.7 | 11.1:1 | 48% (132) |
| 2022-23 | 295 | 26.9 | 11.0:1 | 59% (175) |
| 2020-21 | 283 | 19 | 14.9:1 | 46% (130) |
| 2017-18 | 278 | 24.5 | 11.4:1 | 40% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 287 | 22 | 13.1:1 | 53% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 295 | 21 | 14.1:1 | 57% (168) |
| 2000-01 | 354 | 24 | 14.8:1 | 34% (120) |
| 1990-91 | 230 | 13 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Osceola Mills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (278 to 271); teachers down 4% (24.5 to 23.6).
About Osceola Mills Elementary School
Osceola Mills Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Osceola Mills, Pennsylvania. The school counts 271 students across kindergarten through 5. The school's enrollment is 39% smaller than the 443 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Osceola Mills Elementary School is run by Philipsburg-Osceola Area SD, whose 4 schools enroll 1,591 students.
The large majority of students at Osceola Mills Elementary School, 97%, are White. County-wide, about 93% of residents are White. Osceola Mills Elementary School has a diversity index of 6%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 23.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Osceola Mills Elementary School was 11.5:1. The 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is higher than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 49%. It compares with 96% for public schools in Clearfield County.
The allk12 Grade for Osceola Mills Elementary School is B. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 63% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, Osceola Mills Elementary School is 6.2 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools.
Clearfield County has these Census figures: median household income is about $62,152, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Osceola Mills Elementary School is among the 19 public schools in Clearfield County.
Nearby, Philipsburg-Osceola Area Middle School is about 3.1 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number 2. On average proficiency, Osceola Mills Elementary School is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Federal data place Osceola Mills Elementary School in the Town: Distant locale, which means it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The number of students declined from 283 to 271 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.5:1, from 14.9:1.
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Clearfield County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
78,635
Census ACS
Median income
$62,152
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
8,409 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Philipsburg-Osceola Area SD
- Philipsburg-Osceola Area High SchoolHigh · 525 students
- Philipsburg Elementary SchoolElementary · 423 students
- Philipsburg-Osceola Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 372 students
Nearby schools
- Philipsburg-Osceola Area Middle School3.1 mi · 372
- Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School4.3 mi · 525
- Philipsburg Elementary School5.1 mi · 423
- Moshannon Valley JSHS6.9 mi · 374
- Moshannon Valley Elementary School6.9 mi · 372
- West Branch Area Elementary School9.5 mi · 374
Frequently asked questions
About Osceola Mills Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Osceola Mills Elementary School?
Osceola Mills Elementary School enrolls approximately 271 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Osceola Mills Elementary School serve?
Osceola Mills Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Osceola Mills Elementary School?
Approximately 11.5:1 students per teacher at Osceola Mills Elementary School.
How diverse is Osceola Mills Elementary School?
Osceola Mills Elementary School reports a student body of 97% White, 0% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Osceola Mills Elementary School?
Osceola Mills Elementary School is overseen by Philipsburg-Osceola Area SD in Clearfield County.
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