Kiski Area East Primary Sch

Kiski Area East Primary Sch is a mid-tier elementary school in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, run under Kiski Area SD. The school works with 425 students in grades K through 4.

Kiski Area SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,275 students; Kiski Area East Primary Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Kiski Area East Primary Sch shows that 77% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% multiracial, 8% Black, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Westmoreland County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Kiski Area East Primary Sch records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kiski Area East Primary Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 38.6%; Kiski Area East Primary Sch posts 61.6%, +23.0 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Westmoreland County) shows that median household income runs about $74,109, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Kiski Area East Primary Sch is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

Kiski Area IHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kiski Area East Primary Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kiski Area East Primary Sch at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 54.5%.

Kiski Area East Primary Sch operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Kiski Area East Primary Sch's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 483 (now 425). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 84% to 77%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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