Berkey School

Berkey School is a low-enrollment elementary school for students in Arnold, Pennsylvania. Students in grades 1 through 2 attend, and enrollment is 289 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 443 students.

Federal data list 4 schools in New Kensington-Arnold SD, with 1,950 students enrolled.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Berkey School. The largest is White students, at 38%. Other students are 34% Black, 24% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. That is lower than the 92% White share among all Westmoreland County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 68% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

The teaching staff at Berkey School is 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 10.5:1. This ratio sits 2.6 below the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.

Among Westmoreland County residents, the median household income is $74,109, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Berkey School is one of 85 public schools in the county.

Nearby, Roy A. Hunt Elementary School is about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

NCES assigns Berkey School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment has fallen by 20 students since 2020-21, to 289. Its ratio of students to teachers was 11.9:1 in 2020-21, and 10.5:1 in 2024-25.

Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Berkey School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.