Enrollment
313
Elementary
DISTRICT 377 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALTOONA AREA SD·NCES 420234007486
Penn-Lincoln Elementary School
411 12th St, Altoona, PA 16602 · (814) 946-8396 · Blair County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL313 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
8.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
310 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
25.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.6pp since 2023
Math
19.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -7.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.6% | 19.2% |
| 2023-24 | 35.2% | 26.4% |
% 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
30.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Penn-Lincoln Elementary School
Penn-Lincoln Elementary School's state test result (30.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penn-Lincoln Elementary School this school | 313 | 99.0% | 30.5% |
| Nicely Elementary School Greensburg | 296 | 97.6% | 62.5% |
| Crafton Elementary School Pittsburgh | 291 | 95.9% | 66.2% |
| Mowrie A Ebner Elementary School Altoona | 349 | 99.1% | 41.6% |
| Rochester Area Elementary School Rochester | 346 | 98.8% | 48.2% |
| Menallen School Uniontown | 318 | 99.7% | 51.6% |
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 Penn-Lincoln Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Blair County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #1,167 of 1,396 | #16 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #1,294 of 1,511 ▼ 110 | #16 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #1,272 of 1,511 ▼ 85 | #16 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 313 | #1,204 of 1,638 | #14 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #13 of 1,528 | #1 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.4% | #615 of 1,531 | #1 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.0% | #379 of 1,600 | #6 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.7% | #124 of 1,045 | #3 of 17 |
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
313
-15 (-5%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 313 | 36.4 | 8.6:1 | 99% (310) |
| 2023-24 | 353 | 36.9 | 9.6:1 | 99% (350) |
| 2022-23 | 368 | 35.4 | 10.4:1 | 88% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 328 | 33 | 9.9:1 | 86% (283) |
| 2017-18 | 439 | 38.2 | 11.5:1 | 90% (396) |
| 2015-16 | 474 | 36 | 13.2:1 | 91% (431) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Penn-Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (439 to 313); teachers down 5% (38.2 to 36.4).
About Penn-Lincoln Elementary School
The public elementary school Penn-Lincoln Elementary School is located in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It has an enrollment of 313 students in kindergarten through 5. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Penn-Lincoln Elementary School is one of 10 schools in Altoona Area SD, which enrolls 6,852 students in total.
The share of White students at Penn-Lincoln Elementary School is 71%, a majority. The school is also 13% Black, 9% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. That is lower than the 92% White share among all Blair County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 46%.
Staffing at Penn-Lincoln Elementary School comes to 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.6:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.1:1. On the income side, 99% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 74% average for public schools in Blair County.
Penn-Lincoln Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 21% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 30.5%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 35.1%.
For the population of Blair County, the median household earns about $62,382 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Penn-Lincoln Elementary School shares Blair County with 32 other public schools.
Altoona Area High School sits about 0.2 miles from Penn-Lincoln Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 30.5% average proficiency ranks 8th among 8 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Small.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 5%, from 328 to 313. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 9.9:1 to 8.6:1.
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Blair County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
121,277
Census ACS
Median income
$62,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
15,692 students
Quick facts
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- Altoona Area High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
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- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 439 students
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- Altoona Area High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
- Altoona Area Jr High SchoolMiddle · 1,578 students
- Juniata Gap Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
- Juniata Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 439 students
- Logan Elementary SchoolElementary · 428 students
Nearby schools
- Altoona Area High School0.2 mi · 2,255
- Altoona Area Jr High School0.2 mi · 1,578
- Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center0.3 mi · 60
- Irving Elementary School1.1 mi · 267
- Pleasant Valley Elementary School1.3 mi · 439
- Logan Elementary School1.8 mi · 428
Frequently asked questions
About Penn-Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Penn-Lincoln Elementary School?
Penn-Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 313 students in grades KG-05.
Is Penn-Lincoln Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Penn-Lincoln Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Penn-Lincoln Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Penn-Lincoln Elementary School is approximately 8.6:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Penn-Lincoln Elementary School?
Student demographics at Penn-Lincoln Elementary School are roughly 71% White, 4% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Penn-Lincoln Elementary School in?
Penn-Lincoln Elementary School is part of Altoona Area SD.
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