Charles A Huston MS

Charles A Huston MS, a low-enrollment middle school in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, run under Burrell SD, serves 399 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% smaller than the state mean of about 594.

Burrell SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,671 students; Charles A Huston MS is among them.

Looking at the student body, Charles A Huston MS reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Westmoreland County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Charles A Huston MS records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at Charles A Huston MS qualify 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Charles A Huston MS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 59.3%; this one comes in at 35.3%, -24.1 points off the demographic line.

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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Westmoreland County's 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), Charles A Huston MS is one campus in the mix.

Burrell HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Charles A Huston MS comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 443 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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