Enrollment
360
Elementary
DISTRICT 353 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·STATE COLLEGE AREA SD·NCES 422277001357
Spring Creek Elementary School
217 Scholl St, State College, PA 16801 · (814) 231-5026 · Centre County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL360 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 81% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest 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
13.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
76 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
68.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.7pp since 2023
Math
68.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.8% | 68.8% |
| 2023-24 | 81.5% | 72.3% |
% 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
75.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Spring Creek Elementary School
Spring Creek Elementary School's state test result (75.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Creek Elementary School this school | 360 | 21.1% | 75.2% |
| Wylandville Elementary School Eighty Four | 318 | 19.5% | 81.6% |
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary School Bethel Park | 338 | 19.5% | 78.4% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Pittsburgh | 414 | 20.5% | 81.3% |
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Pittsburgh | 348 | 21.6% | 76.2% |
| Howe Elementary School Pittsburgh | 398 | 17.1% | 80.6% |
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 Spring Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Centre County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #198 of 1,396 | #6 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #297 of 1,511 ▼ 94 | #7 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #233 of 1,511 ▼ 125 | #5 of 19 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 360 | #1,026 of 1,638 | #6 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #952 of 1,528 | #16 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.5% | #972 of 1,531 | #8 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.1% | #1,428 of 1,600 | #14 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.8% | #230 of 450 | #5 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
360
+7 (+2%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 565
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 360 | 26.5 | 13.6:1 | 21% (76) |
| 2023-24 | 381 | 26.9 | 14.2:1 | 20% (76) |
| 2022-23 | 369 | 26.8 | 13.8:1 | 20% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 353 | 23 | 15.3:1 | 14% (49) |
| 2017-18 | 334 | 25.3 | 13.2:1 | 17% (57) |
| 2015-16 | 361 | 23 | 15.7:1 | 16% (57) |
| 2010-11 | 372 | 27 | 13.8:1 | 16% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 482 | 26 | 18.5:1 | 5% (25) |
| 1990-91 | 565 | 31 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spring Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (334 to 360); teachers up 5% (25.3 to 26.5).
About Spring Creek Elementary School
Spring Creek Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in State College Area SD, located in State College, Pennsylvania. In all, 360 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5.
The district for Spring Creek Elementary School is State College Area SD, with 11 schools and 6,799 students.
Of every 100 students at Spring Creek Elementary School, about 83 are White. After that, the student body is 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, and 3% Hispanic. Census estimates put Centre County at about 84% White, close to the school's figure. A diversity index of 30% means there is a 30% chance two randomly chosen students at Spring Creek Elementary School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.6:1. The school has 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is close to this figure. In all, 21% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 31% average for public schools in Centre County is 10 points higher.
Spring Creek Elementary School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 81% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Spring Creek Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 75.2% and a predicted 68.6%.
In Centre County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $74,291, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 33 public schools in the county, enrolling about 13,674, Spring Creek Elementary School among them.
Easterly Parkway Elementary School sits about 2.8 miles from Spring Creek Elementary School. Within five miles of Spring Creek Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 68.0%; Spring Creek Elementary School's is 75.2%, ranking 4th of 9.
Spring Creek Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Small locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 353 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 360. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.6:1.
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Centre County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
158,576
Census ACS
Median income
$74,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
13,674 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in State College Area SD
- State College Area High SchoolHigh · 2,402 students
- Park Forest Middle SchoolMiddle · 822 students
- Mount Nittany Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Radio Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
- Park Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
- Mount Nittany Elementary SchoolElementary · 413 students
Other schools in State College
- State College Area High SchoolHigh · 2,402 students
- Park Forest Middle SchoolMiddle · 822 students
- Mount Nittany Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Radio Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
- Park Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
- Mount Nittany Elementary SchoolElementary · 413 students
Other Spring Creek Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Spring Creek Elementary. Spring Creek Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 16.
- Spring Creek ElementaryGoldsboro, NC · 804 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolChattanooga, TN · 698 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolCOLLEGE STATION, TX · 696 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolGARLAND, TX · 673 students
- SPRING CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBONITA SPRINGS, FL · 664 students
Nearby schools
- Easterly Parkway Elementary School2.8 mi · 314
- Mount Nittany Middle School2.9 mi · 752
- Mount Nittany Elementary School3.0 mi · 413
- Nittany Valley CS3.1 mi · 51
- State College Area High School3.4 mi · 2,402
- Radio Park Elementary School3.5 mi · 424
Frequently asked questions
About Spring Creek Elementary SchoolHow large is Spring Creek Elementary School?
Spring Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 360 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Spring Creek Elementary School serve?
Spring Creek Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Spring Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at Spring Creek Elementary School.
How diverse is Spring Creek Elementary School?
Spring Creek Elementary School reports a student body of 83% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Spring Creek Elementary School in?
Spring Creek Elementary School is part of State College Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.