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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Mountain View El Sch

Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
422274002222
District
Tuscarora SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Mountain View El Sch is a public primary school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, run by Tuscarora SD. It enrols 211 students — the 76766th largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.

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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

211students

76766th nationally, tied with 112

Teachers

13.0FTE

78940th nationally, tied with 1,474

Students per teacher

16.2students

58373rd nationally, tied with 780

Free or reduced-price lunch

100.0%percent

1st nationally, tied with 3,753

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.

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Within Tuscarora 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1James Buchanan Hs735 students
  2. 2James Buchanan Ms550 students
  3. 3St Thomas El Sch318 students
  4. 4Mercersburg El Sch247 students
  5. 5Mountain View El Sch211 students
  6. 6Montgomery El Sch202 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Pennsylvania median across 2,956 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−58.6%
  • Teachers−62.9%
  • Students per teacher+20.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+95.3%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.