An equity score of 90/100 ranks Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd #15 of 649 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $21,237 per pupil, Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd ranks #117 of 672 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd operates 2 public schools serving 278 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined 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 $21,237 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 672 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 31.1% local, 59.6% state, and 9.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 90/100, ranked #15 of 649 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 124.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 54.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.6% White, 1.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Turkeyfoot Valley Area El Sch, enrolling 135 students (54% of the district's total enrollment).
Turkeyfoot Valley Area El Sch accounts for 48.6% of all Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd a distant remainder — means Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd reports 95.7% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd student-counselor ratio is 125:1 — 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.
Turkeyfoot Valley Area Sd chronic absenteeism rate is 54.9% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.