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Hahntown El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% 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 22 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hahntown El Sch
Hahntown El Sch operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, overseen by Norwin SD. Current enrollment sits at 419 students spanning grades K through 4.
Hahntown El Sch is one of 7 schools operated by Norwin SD, a district that caters to 4,951 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Hahntown El Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Hahntown El Sch has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Hahntown El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Westmoreland County's rate of about 53%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hahntown El Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 61.5%; actual is 83.1%, +21.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Westmoreland County put the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Westmoreland County runs 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), of which Hahntown El Sch is one.
Norwin MS 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, Hahntown El Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.8%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hahntown El Sch has decreased 22%, going from 540 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.
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Westmoreland County at a glance
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