Park Forest MS

Park Forest MS operates as a medium-sized middle school in State College, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within State College Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 822 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Park Forest MS sits 38% larger than that benchmark.

Within State College Area SD, which oversees 11 schools and 6,799 students, Park Forest MS is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Park Forest MS logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest reads as 10% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Centre County (around 31%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Park Forest MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.1%; this one delivers 71.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Centre County put median household earnings sit near $74,291, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Centre County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,674 students), of which Park Forest MS is one.

Park Forest El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Park Forest MS comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Park Forest MS's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 788 (now 822).

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