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Standing Stone El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Standing Stone El Sch
Located at 10 29th Street, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Standing Stone El Sch is a mid-tier elementary campus that serves 382 students (grades K through 5), run under Huntingdon Area SD.
Across the 4 schools in Huntingdon Area SD (1,694 students total), Standing Stone El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Standing Stone El Sch shows that nearly all students (88%) are White. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Huntingdon County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Standing Stone El Sch has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Standing Stone El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 49.7%.
Zooming out to the county, Huntingdon County reports that median household income runs about $65,557, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Huntingdon County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,454 students), of which Standing Stone El Sch is one.
Nearest neighbor: Huntingdon Area MS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Standing Stone El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Standing Stone El Sch at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 40.4%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 454 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 93% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.
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