Hillcrest Intermediate Sch

Hillcrest Intermediate Sch, a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, overseen by Norwin SD, teaches 755 students, covering grades 5 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 27% larger than the state mean of about 594.

Within Norwin SD, which oversees 7 schools and 4,951 students, Hillcrest Intermediate Sch is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Hillcrest Intermediate Sch lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Hillcrest Intermediate Sch shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Westmoreland County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hillcrest Intermediate Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 74.3%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the area at large, 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%. Hillcrest Intermediate Sch is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

The closest other public school is Norwin MS, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillcrest Intermediate Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hillcrest Intermediate Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 72.9%.

Hillcrest Intermediate Sch operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Hillcrest Intermediate Sch's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 855 (now 755). Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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