Bellefonte Area School District
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This school district serves the following county or counties: Centre
District Profile
District Profile
Address
318 N Allegheny St
Bellefonte, PA 16823-1613
Phone 814-355-4814
Fax 814-353-5342
Municipalities in District
Includes the municipalities of Bellefonte Borough, Benner Township, Marion Township, Spring Township, Walker Township.
Square Miles
116.75
Students Enrolled
2,636
Schools in District
Total Number of Schools:
6
- Bellefonte Area HS (9-12)
- Bellefonte Area MS (6,7-8)
- Bellefonte El Sch (K-5)
- Benner El Sch (K-5)
- Marion-Walker El Sch (K-5)
- Pleasant Gap El Sch (K-5)
Online Learning
Career and Technology Center
Intermediate Unit
District Map
School district: light blue; Administrative office: medium blue circle; County(ies) served: green dashes.
District Demographics
Total Students
2,636
Ethnicity
- American Indian
- 0.23%
- Asian
- 0.57%
- Black
- 0.83%
- Latino
- 2.39%
- Pacific Islander
- 0.04%
- 2 or More Races
- 2.24%
- White
- 93.70%
Gender
- Male
- 49.73%
- Female
- 50.27%
Other Statistics
- Special Education
- 17.65%
- English Learner
- 1.33%
Financials
Median Household Income
$62,352.00
Revenue Sources
| Type of Revenue | Income | Percent of Budget |
|---|---|---|
| Local Revenues | $33,049,637.35 | 61.63% |
| State Revenues | $19,848,285.24 | 37.01% |
| Federal | $719,333.87 | 1.34% |
| Other | N/A | N/A |
Other Tax Stats
- Property Taxes Collected by District
- $23,818,660.92
- Property Values Within District
-
$187,000.00Median Home Value
Academic Outcomes
Graduation Rate
91.67%
Rigorous Courses
16
E.g. IB AP
Post-Secondary Plans
- 60.29%
- College/University
- 6.86%
- Other Specialized Learning
PSSA Stats
% of Advanced or Proficient
| Grade Level | English Language Arts | Math | Science |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 72.68% | 65.57% | N/A |
| Grade 4 | 65.92% | 62.36% | 88.76% |
| Grade 5 | 61.31% | 54.76% | N/A |
| Grade 6 | 67.63% | 36.54% | N/A |
| Grade 7 | 64.58% | 42.11% | N/A |
| Grade 8 | 62.11% | 40.74% | 65.96% |
Keystone Results
% of Advanced or Proficient
| Grade Level | Literature | Algebra I | Biology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 66.67% | 70.72% | 67.76% |
Staff
204
Teachers
13
Administrators
147
Support
Student /Teacher Ratio
13:1
School District Leadership
School District Leadership
Superintendent of Schools: Tammie Burnaford
School Board Directors *
| Name | Total Years of Service | Current Term |
School Director Training Certificate
PSBA Provided
|
Certificate of Board Governance |
Continuing Education Badges Earned
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Jon Guizar
Board President
|
9 | 2021-2025 |
Advanced School Director Training (RQD-ADV) 
|
5 | |
|
Jeff Steiner
Board Vice President
|
11 | 2021-2025 |
Advanced School Director Training (RQD-ADV)
|
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| Jack Bechdel | 2 | 2021-2025 | |||
| Nate Campbell | 2 | 2022-2023 |
New School Director Training (RQD-NEW) 
|
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| Julie Fitzgerald | 4 | 2019-2023 |
New School Director Training (RQD-NEW)
|
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| Dr. Marie Perini | 2 | 2021-2023 |
New School Director Training (RQD-NEW)
|
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| Andrea Royer | 2 | 2021-2025 |
New School Director Training (RQD-NEW)
|
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| Donna Smith | 5 | 2019-2023 |
Advanced School Director Training (RQD-ADV)
|
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| Jeff Steiner | 11 | 2021-2025 |
Advanced School Director Training (RQD-ADV)
|
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| Kimberly Weaver | 9 | 2019-2023 |
Advanced School Director Training (RQD-ADV)
|
* In accordance with Act 55 of 2017 and Act 18 of 2019, school board directors are required to complete approved training starting in the 2018-2019 school year. School board directors who began their term in 2017 are permitted to take this training, but it is not required. School board directors who began their term after July 1, 2018 are required to complete an initial 5 hours of new school director training and at the beginning of each subsequent election, 3 hours of advanced school director training. School board director data will be updated as it is made available. Data updates occur regularly and ongoing.
Success Stories
- ‘Reading signs’ foster a love of reading in students, staff
- Principal sleeps on school roof after students exceed PTA fundraising goal
- Drones part of curriculum in fifth-grade class
- ‘Paying it forward’ a mindset for coach Maney, wrestling team
- Game day helps ELL students with speaking, social skills
- Orchestra students record spring performance around various locations at high school
- Wax Museum project returns at Bellefonte Elementary School
- Bellefonte Special Olympics bring fun field day events
- Fitness Friday aims to improve student well-being
- Curiosity Cube brings fun STEM lessons to Pleasant Gap students
- Trout released into Little Fishing Creek
- Student artwork displayed on CATA bus
- Gov. Wolf visits Marion-Walker during press conference on rural broadband internet access
- FBLA students excel at state competition
- ‘B the Change’ leads Earth Day initiatives
- District recognized nationally for its music program
- Elementary students showcase artwork in private gallery
- Bellefonte Reads highlights national parks
- Instrument drive held to support Bellefonte music students
- Mock Trial competition hones communication skills
- Members of Leadership Centre County visit BASD
- Career speakers work with high school students
- Unique national parks tech project featured at school board meeting
- Lesson brings study of weather, meteorologist to class
- Letters of thanks fill faculty, staff mailboxes
- Marion-Walker students recognized at board meeting
- Academic Decathlon team competes at states
- BAMS Destination Imagination teams shine at state competition
- Growth of student newspaper includes online publication
- Detectives teach students about analyzing crime scene evidence
- Model UN takes on virtual, in-person competitions
- Seniors raise funds to benefit Housing Transitions of Centre County
- Elementary band students perform for board in meeting
- Students act out ‘Romeo and Juliet’ scene in English class
- BAMS sax players perform for school board
- Key Club benefits the Sunshine Foundation
- Pulsera Project kicks off World Languages Week
- What it takes to put on a middle school musical
- Class connects with peers from across the country in valentine exchange
- Read Across America events promote love of reading
- Veterinary sciences class meets with K-9 dog, handler
- Chain Reaction Club sends small messages of kindness and positivity
- Middle school STARS students recognized by school board
- Bellefonte students part of winning design team with new logo for CIU10
- Mask project represents school history
- Friendship Club lives up to its name
- Unified bocce program prepares for season
- Stock market challenge teaches trading, saving
- Donations benefit students during the winter
- High school Spanish class students participate in El Año Nuevo tradition
- First-grade students participate in New Year’s resolution economics lesson
- Kid’s Heart Challenge raises promotes heart-healthy lifestyle
- Art Club aims to connect with community
- Students learn about a variety of celebrations during holiday season
- Holiday plays, songs make learning fun
- Students learn mindfulness strategies
- Destination Imagination team preparing for spring competition
- Passion for art goes beyond just class assignments
- 12 Days of Spirit aims for fun, theme-based activities
- High school Destination Imagination team prepares for spring competition
- Program allows students to get feet wet with job opportunities while in school
- High school junior aspires to have a career in the visual arts
- High school quintet serenades members of the school board
- Teacher documents journeys with magnets
- Polar Bear Plunge raises money for antihunger programs
- Gratitude Forest highlights appreciation
- Benner Elementary connects with students from India
- Orchestra program gearing up for concerts
- Destination Imagination team may go to global finals
- Secretary Ortega visits Bellefonte Area School District
- New high school class outlines Central Pennsylvania history
- High school psych students learn about the brain in unique activity
- Chalk the Walk to benefit mini-Thon
- Balloon-popping activity helps students with accounting lessons
- Benner Elementary School supports DC8 Fund in memory of former student
- Students participate in a local Special Olympics event
- Bellefonte Area High School yearbook program honored with national award
- Community partnership helps fund classroom needs
- One Book, One Bellefonte 2021
- Initiative helps take better care of teachers
- Life skills students team up with librarian for fun projects
- Band students meet with member of U.S. Marine Band
- Bellefonte organizes homecoming, despite differences from the past
- Students celebrate Unity Day
- Bellefonte bands find a way to entertain despite limitations
- Tech ed teacher finds way to bring realistic home improvement project lessons to classroom
- High school students learn computer coding and programming logic through series of computer sciences classes
- IDEA Hub: Where ideas become reality
- Students bring excitement during morning announcements
- Slay the Dragon team receives trophy from last year’s win
- Students participate in kid-friendly activities to learn about pandemic guidelines
- BASD librarian reinventing school libraries to make it space for students to collaborate
- Girls’ soccer program creates soccer camp after original plans cancel
- Fifth-grade student named among 10 finalists of national reading, history contest
- BASD recognizes seniors in Be the Light initiative
- Wax museum an annual tradition for BES fourth-grade students
- BAHS Slay the Dragon champs for third consecutive year, BAMS placed second
- College students, grads work with BAMS science classes
- High school FFA students headed to state Farm Show
- Three Bellefonte Area School District students winners in poster contest, three named honorable mentions
- Marion-Walker student collects shoes for school
- Students receive accolades at Mock Constitutional Convention
- Bellefonte Area Middle School student writes, publishes book
- BAHS student place at 4-H conference in Kentucky
- Benner students connect with troops overseas
- WWI, II items on display for Veterans Day at Pleasant Gap
- Sensory walk a new feature at Pleasant Gap Elementary School
- High school business class provides real world skills
- Elementary students learn about agriculture with PA Farm Bureau
- Bellefonte Reads committee selects featured book for 2020 One Book, One Bellefonte event
- Ski Club provides snow sport opportunities for high school students
- Elementary student ambassadors oversee community service projects
- BAHS teams up with CareerLink to help students determine their futures
- Bellefonte marching band performs at Penn State womens’ soccer game
- Annual life skills dance brings students together from three school districts
- Bellefonte Reads again supports the Jared Box Project with book donations
- BAMS students visit residents of Centre Crest
- Bellefonte Area students participate in HeroScape project with CPI horticulture, landscaping class
- Fourth-grade class uses library space to learn how electricity works
- High school PE class brings realistic training to students
- Varsity soccer player scores 100th career goal for Bellefonte
- Students involved in the BAMS Summer Book Club virtually meet author
- District holds annual STEM Camp, partners with Engine of Central PA to further enhance STEM initiatives
- World Language Camp offers students the chance to learn new languages
- Bellefonte Area High School student places second in PA-05 Congressional District Art Competition
- Bellefonte students participate in annual Math 24 tournament
- Students, volunteers make nesting boxes donated by the state Game Commission
- Bellefonte Area students create artwork for a CATA bus
- Bellefonte Area High School yearbook given national excellence award
- Driver safety initiatives held for students, families leading up to senior ball
- Bellefonte Key Club members honored during District Convention in Pittsburgh
- Marion-Walker students hold talent show to benefit school’s mini-thon
- Tech education classes provide hands-on engineering projects
- Elementary student inspired to support AHA through school campaigns
- Senior becomes Eagle Scout after longtime dedication to the program
- Bellefonte Area Middle school teacher has class full of snakes for Animal Club
- Benner fourth-grader holds donation drive
- Pleasant Gap students make Valentine’s Day cards for residents
- One Book, One Bellefonte
- Bellefonte first-grade student a winner of classroom supply donations through J.B. Hunt Transport
- Jumping pits at Rogers Stadium named for Dave Schaub
- Seven Bellefonte band students headed to regional competition
- Bellefonte Area High School celebrates World Language Week
- Students celebrate Read Across America week with activities
- Bellefonte celebrates National School Breakfast Week with a ‘Start your engines’ theme
- Art students create handmade ceramic bowls for Empty Bowls project
- Bellefonte Area sixth-grade student writes, publishes book
- Students connect with classmates in Argentina through global literacy project
- Bellefonte Area Spanish students participate in Monster Project
- Father of Virginia Tech massacre victim presents $125,000 check to Bellefonte Area school board for capital campaign
- Benner Elementary School students learn about Veterans Day
- Track at Rogers Stadium named in memory of Virginia Tech massacre, 9/11 victims
- Elementary students participate in Kids Heart Challenge, Jump Rope for Heart
- FFA students attend Farm City Dinner
- Festival of Trees includes a tree that represents Bellefonte Area School District
- Benner Elementary School student send Christmas cards to student who is terminally ill
- Bellefonte elementary students sing Christmas carols to retired teacher with cancer
- Bellefonte Area senior given county recognition
- Ag students get visit from mini donkeys used as therapy animals
- Bellefonte hosts annual Girls Wanna Run 5K
- State education secretary visits Bellefonte Area School District
- Pleasant Gap student a winner in antibullying-themed design contest
- Teacher, coach to participate in Rocky Run while raising money for local veteran organization
- Bellefonte Elementary hosts first-ever mini-Thon
- High school safety committee participates in PennDOT art competition promoting driver safety
- AP bio students visit site of first-discovered tetrapod
- Benner kindergarten students participate in fashion show as end-of-lesson project about ABCs
- Oh how the Benner Elementary garden grows!
- Pleasant Gap Elementary class gets dozens of book donations
- Bellefonte Reads fall event to support Jared Box Project
- Bellefonte Area class teams with Penn State law school
- Bellefonte Area celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
- Bellefonte Area remembers Class of ’93 grad who lost his life during the 9/11 attacks
- Bellefonte Area offseaon football training prepares team for competition
- Bellefonte Area students recognized by Centre County Library
- Bellefonte Area schools, teachers host summer reading programs to bolster student literacy skills
- Benner Elementary class welcomes guest from AccuWeather
- Bellefonte Area students experience Ecuadorian ecosystems
- Bellefonte Area School District holds inaugural STEM Camp for elementary students
- Students learn variety of languages during annual summer camp
- Bellefonte Area School District given 2018 TechXcellence recognition
- Senior Alexis Hassinger Recipient of Bellefonte Garden Club Scholarship
- Benner students conduct research projects for science fair
- BAMS given 2018 Peace Leader Awards for effort to support global education charity
- Bellefonte Area students participate in Special Olympics Geri Ryan track meet
- Benner students use recyclable material to enhance school garden
- Bellefonte hosts 134th graduation ceremony
- Marion-Walker Elementary recipient of Little Free Library
- Two Bellefonte Area students among the top of congressional art contest
- Bellefonte Area seniors participate in senior walk before graduating
- Bellefonte Area students headed to Galapagos Islands for science-based educational trip
- Graduating seniors leave artistic mark on school
- Bellefonte Area Middle School earns award for supporting global education charity
- Bellefonte Area wood shop students make bamboo fly fishing rods
- Fourth-grade students make space-related videos in research, technology project
- Siblings from hurricane-torn Puerto Rico say transition to BAHS has been ‘really good’
- Students see live surgery, spread awareness about organ and tissue donation
- Students learn about politics, give back to community at SLLC
- Students make contact with astronaut Scott Tingle on ISS though use of amateur radio
- Students use cells from Henrietta Lacks in language arts-science project
- Longtime Bellefonte Area band director receives state award
- Bellefonte Area junior holds two Dairy Princess titles
- World Languages Week celebrated at high school
- Focused Learning program boosts student achievement
- Snow day challenge at Benner Elementary sparks students to read
- Bellefonte Area Model UN students among best in the world
- Mindfulness training helps students focus on learning
- Literacy program involves the whole community