State College Area School District approves attendance boundary change

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The State College Area School District Board of Directors approved an attendance boundary change between Easterly Parkway and Corl Street elementary schools.

The announcement, which came on Monday, May 6, came as a way to provide equitable student experiences by balancing class sizes while minimizing busing disruptions. Beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, students who live in the White Course apartments on Duff Drive, who are currently assigned to Easterly Park Way, will be relocated to Corl Street. This includes students that are eligible for English Language Development (ELD).

This will provide more equitable class sizes across several elementary schools and allow for student assignments to neighborhood schools, as well as add ELD support services to Corl Street, which historically has had to send ELD students to the Radio Park center. In addition, ELD students who live in the Corl Street catchment area will be able to return to their neighborhood school to receive those services.

“I’m excited that Corl Street is going to have its own (ELD) center,” Board President Amy Bader
said. “I think that’s going to be really beneficial for those students.”

Rising fifth graders at the White Course apartments on Duff Drive will have the option to remain
in their current placement with the understanding that they will then attend Park Forest Middle
School.

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Also in the 2024-2025 school year, rising sixth graders and new middle school students who
reside at the White Course apartments will attend Park Forest for their middle school career.
White Course students who have been attending Mount Nittany Middle School will have the
option to continue in their current building assignment for seventh and/or eighth grade and will
have district transportation provided.

Additionally, the Board approved the purchase of 7.4 acres along Valley Vista Drive near Park
Forest Middle School from Hawbaker-Brower Limited Partnership for $1.4 million in support of
the project to build a new PFMS. The acquisition will supplement district-owned property.

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