Belle Vernon Area HS

Belle Vernon Area HS is a 9-12 campus of medium-sized scale in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Belle Vernon Area SD, educateing 735 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within Belle Vernon Area SD, which oversees 4 schools and 2,416 students, Belle Vernon Area HS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Belle Vernon Area HS records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Belle Vernon Area HS ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.9%; Belle Vernon Area HS posts 52.3%, +17.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Westmoreland County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Belle Vernon Area HS is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

Rostraver El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Belle Vernon Area HS ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 41.3%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Belle Vernon Area HS's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 776 (now 735). White enrollment moved from 92% to 87% across the same window.

On this page, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.