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Amos K Hutchinson El Sch
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Amos K Hutchinson El Sch
Amos K Hutchinson El Sch is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, part of Greensburg Salem SD, teacheing 521 students in grades K through 5.
Amos K Hutchinson El Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Greensburg Salem SD, a district that hosts 2,425 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Amos K Hutchinson El Sch shows that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 16% multiracial, 10% Black, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 92% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 102% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Amos K Hutchinson El Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.8%; this one delivers 52.7%, a residual of +18.9 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Westmoreland County put median household income runs about $74,109, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Amos K Hutchinson El Sch is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).
The closest other public school is Greensburg-Salem MS, roughly 1.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Amos K Hutchinson El Sch comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 616 students in 2018 compared to 521 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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