Pleasant Gap El Sch

Pleasant Gap El Sch, a tight-knit elementary school in Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania, run under Bellefonte Area SD, serves 215 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Pleasant Gap El Sch sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Bellefonte Area SD, which oversees 6 schools and 2,579 students, Pleasant Gap El Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Pleasant Gap El Sch shows that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Pleasant Gap El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 67.1%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Centre County reports that median household income runs about $74,291, 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), Pleasant Gap El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Central PA Institute of Science and Technology, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pleasant Gap El Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 215 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 94% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Pleasant Gap El Sch community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.