Hempfield Area SHS

Located at 4345 State Route 136, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Hempfield Area SHS is a roomy four-year high school that hosts 1,228 students (grades 10 through 12), one of the schools within Hempfield Area SD. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 66% above typical.

Hempfield Area SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,015 students. Hempfield Area SHS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hempfield Area SHS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest looks like 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Westmoreland County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Hempfield Area SHS has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Westmoreland County's rate of about 53%.

After controlling for student poverty, Hempfield Area SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.4%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Westmoreland County shows median household income runs about $74,109, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Westmoreland County runs 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), of which Hempfield Area SHS is one.

Harrold School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hempfield Area SHS comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Hempfield Area SHS's enrollment has fell 33% since 2018, when it stood at 1,843 (now 1,228).

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Hempfield Area SHS typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.