Greater Latrobe JHS

Greater Latrobe JHS, a modestly sized middle-grades school in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, overseen by Greater Latrobe SD, educates 499 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Across the 5 schools in Greater Latrobe SD (3,285 students total), Greater Latrobe JHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Greater Latrobe JHS records that nearly all students (92%) are White. The remainder looks like 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Greater Latrobe JHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.3%, the actual is 61.8%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Around the school, 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%. Across Westmoreland County's 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), Greater Latrobe JHS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Greater Latrobe SHS, roughly 0.1 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Greater Latrobe JHS comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Greater Latrobe JHS has declined 18%, going from 611 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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