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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 418 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINDBER AREA SD·NCES 422661000280
Windber Elementary School
421 Sugar Maple Dr, Windber, PA 15963 · (814) 467-4567 · Somerset County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
13.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
614 students
DISTRICT 97% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 67 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 37% larger than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Windber Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
47.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -15.6pp since 2023
Math
54.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -4.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.3% | 54.8% |
| 2023-24 | 62.9% | 59.1% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
58.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 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 Windber Elementary School
Windber Elementary School's state test result (58.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windber Elementary School this school | 617 | 99.5% | 58.0% |
| Wyalusing Valley Elementary School Wyalusing | 633 | 99.5% | 50.9% |
| Tunkhannock Area Intermediate Center Tunkhannock | 614 | 98.7% | 48.4% |
| Dunbar Twp Elementary School Connellsville | 580 | 98.3% | 43.6% |
| South St Marys Street Elementary School Saint Marys | 583 | 97.3% | 52.6% |
| Dassa McKinney Elementary School West Sunbury | 581 | 99.7% | 58.9% |
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 Windber Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #652 of 1,396 | #7 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #679 of 1,511 ▼ 165 | #7 of 11 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #821 of 1,511 ▼ 285 | #7 of 11 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #235 of 1,638 | #1 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,044 of 1,528 | #8 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.0% | #1,297 of 1,531 | #2 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #335 of 1,600 | #2 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.2% | #326 of 450 | N/A |
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
617
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
-19% since 2000-01, when it was 759
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 617 | 44.4 | 13.9:1 | 100% (614) |
| 2023-24 | 622 | 42.2 | 14.8:1 | 100% (619) |
| 2022-23 | 620 | 38.9 | 16.0:1 | 56% (349) |
| 2020-21 | 607 | 37 | 16.4:1 | 52% (318) |
| 2017-18 | 592 | 40.1 | 14.8:1 | 53% (311) |
| 2015-16 | 551 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 48% (267) |
| 2010-11 | 633 | 40 | 15.8:1 | 43% (270) |
| 2000-01 | 759 | 43 | 17.6:1 | 41% (313) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Windber Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (592 to 617); teachers up 11% (40.1 to 44.4).
About Windber Elementary School
Windber Elementary School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Windber, Pennsylvania. The student body numbers 617 students, from pre-K through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 443, so this school runs 39% above that.
District-wide, Windber Area SD has 3 schools and 1,254 students.
Windber Elementary School enrolls a student body that is 92% White. Other reported shares: 3% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. The White share in Somerset County as a whole is similar, at about 94%. By the diversity index, Windber Elementary School comes in at 15%.
Windber Elementary School counts 44.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 13.9 students for each one. The 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is lower than this school's figure. About 100% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. It compares with 66% for public schools in Somerset County.
allk12 grades Windber Elementary School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Windber Elementary School is in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 34.9%. The school's actual rate is 58.0%, 23.0 points higher.
Somerset County census figures show that median household income is about $61,446, roughly 18% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Windber Elementary School is among the 29 public schools in Somerset County.
Windber Area Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes 5 other public schools. Local comparison: Windber Elementary School ranks 5th of 7 nearby schools, at 58.0% versus a 61.1% average.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Small. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (607) to 2024-25 (617). The school's ratio fell from 16.4:1 to 13.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Somerset County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
72,799
Census ACS
Median income
$61,446
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
29
8,271 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Windber Area SD
- Windber Area High SchoolHigh · 337 students
- Windber Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 300 students
Other schools in Windber
- Windber Area High SchoolHigh · 337 students
- Windber Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 300 students
Nearby schools
- Windber Area Middle School1.1 mi · 300
- Windber Area High School1.1 mi · 337
- Richland High School3.8 mi · 693
- Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center4.0 mi · 14
- Richland Elementary School4.2 mi · 831
- Conemaugh Twp Area Elementary School6.0 mi · 381
Frequently asked questions
About Windber Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Windber Elementary School?
Windber Elementary School enrolls approximately 617 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Windber Elementary School serve?
Windber Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Windber Elementary School have?
Windber Elementary School employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
How diverse is Windber Elementary School?
Windber Elementary School reports a student body of 92% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Windber Elementary School?
Windber Elementary School is overseen by Windber Area SD in Somerset County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.