Public school / High
Altoona Area Hs
Altoona, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 420234000913
- District
- Altoona Area SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Altoona Area Hs is a public high school in Altoona, Pennsylvania, run by Altoona Area SD. It enrols 2,228 students — the 1207th largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
2,228
Teachers
137.0
Students per teacher
16.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
48.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Altoona Area SD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Altoona Area Hs2,228 students
- 2Altoona Area Jr Hs1,727 students
- 3Juniata Gap El Sch553 students
- 4Pleasant Valley El Sch465 students
- 5Juniata El Sch460 students
- 6Logan El Sch439 students
- 7Mowrie A Ebner El Sch406 students
- 8Penn-Lincoln El Sch368 students
- Enrollment+336.9%
- Teachers+291.4%
- Students per teacher+20.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−5.7%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory