Radio Park El Sch

Radio Park El Sch is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in State College, Pennsylvania, run under State College Area SD, with 424 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

State College Area SD runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,799 students. Radio Park El Sch is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Radio Park El Sch records that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Asian, 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Centre County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Radio Park El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.3%; this one delivers 76.0%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Centre County put 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), Radio Park El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Corl Street El Sch, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Radio Park El Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 18%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 424 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 66% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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