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Shanksville, Pennsylvania - 3 schools
An equity score of 69/100 ranks Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd #125 of 648 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $22,793 per pupil, Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd ranks #46 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
280
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$22,793
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd operates 3 public schools serving 280 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Somerset County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,793 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 68 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 55.6% local, 36.1% state, and 8.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 69/100, ranked #125 of 648 in Pennsylvania against a state average of 49, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 94.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 15.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.1% White, 0.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Shanksville-Stonycreek Hs, with a diversity index of 10.8/100.
Its largest campus is Shanksville-Stonycreek El Sch, enrolling 133 students (47% of the district's total enrollment).
Shanksville-Stonycreek El Sch accounts for 46.8% of all Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd a distant remainder — means Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd school enrollment varies 2.2× across entities
Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd school enrollment ranges from 61 students (lowest) to 133 students (highest), a spread of 72 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd student-counselor ratio is 95:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd chronic absenteeism rate is 15.6% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd is typically wider than the Shanksville-Stonycreek Sd-aggregate figure suggests.