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Appalachia IU 8

Altoona, Pennsylvania · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

125
Students enrolled
104
Classroom teachers (FTE)
1.2:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

District details

Grades served

KG to 12

Total staff (FTE)

232

District office

4500 6th Avenue, Altoona PA 16602

County

Blair County

Official website

NCES District ID

4289180

About Appalachia IU 8

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

IU8's mission is to be a leader in educational partnerships with its customers—the school districts and their students—by offering a broad range of quality educational, technological and support services through continuous innovation. IU8 has continued to identify the needs of our customers and provide cost-effective quality services to meet those needs by focusing on six pillars, which support the foundation of the organization: customers, fiscal responsibility, innovation, empowerment, leadership and systems. More specifically, its goals are to: develop interactive communication among its districts and the surrounding community; respond to its customers’ needs by offering a broad range of educational, technological and learning support services; promote continuous staff development for its internal and external stakeholders by informing educational providers of the latest educational methods, materials and technology; and periodically assess its efforts to determine the quality of its services and the changing and expanding needs of its customers, in order to provide the highest quality and most comprehensive educational opportunities and effective learning environments for the students within IU8.
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