Snow Shoe’s public schools beat 86% of Pennsylvania districts
The public schools Snow Shoe’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 86% of Pennsylvania’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
Snow Shoe’s schools, in brief
Snow Shoe’s schools are very small
All of Snow Shoe’s public school students add up to 104 children, with about 11 per teacher. That means real individual attention, but also that a single class can swing the scores from year to year. Every school ↓
Snow Shoe has its own elementary school and shares the rest
Snow Shoe’s own school is Mountaintop Area El Sch, for kindergarten through grade 5. From grade 6, students go to Bald Eagle Area MS/SHS in Wingate. The elementary school earns the best grade on the path (A); the middle school earns the lowest (B−). See the path ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
How Snow Shoe compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Pennsylvania’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Pennsylvania only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Snow Shoe.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
How students score
Every school in Snow Shoe
1 school. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Snow Shoe families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Snow Shoe
There’s no college in Snow Shoe, but 4 are within 30 miles. The closest is Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology in Spring, 14.8 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Snow Shoe. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Pennsylvania. Stars are from neighbors.