Public school / Primary
Ferguson Twp El Sch
Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 422277001350
- District
- State College Area SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ferguson Twp El Sch is a public primary school in Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania, run by State College Area SD. It enrols 312 students — the 63926th 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
312
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
12.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
11.9%
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 State College 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.
- 1State College Area Hs2,410 students
- 2Park Forest Ms815 students
- 3Mount Nittany Ms695 students
- 4Mount Nittany El Sch430 students
- 5Park Forest El Sch430 students
- 6Radio Park El Sch396 students
- 7Gray'S Woods El Sch369 students
- 8Spring Creek El Sch369 students
- Enrollment−38.8%
- Teachers−28.6%
- Students per teacher−7.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−76.8%
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