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Kiski Area South Primary Sch
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kiski Area South Primary Sch
Kiski Area South Primary Sch is an elementary school of cozy scale in Export, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Kiski Area SD, enrolling 308 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 30% below the state mean of about 443.
Kiski Area SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,275 students; Kiski Area South Primary Sch is among them.
On demographics, Kiski Area South Primary Sch logs that nearly all students (91%) are White; the rest consists of 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Westmoreland County (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
With demographic context factored in, Kiski Area South Primary Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 69.1%, a residual of +10.8 points.
Across the wider county, Westmoreland County reports that median household income runs about $74,109, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Westmoreland County runs 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), of which Kiski Area South Primary Sch is one.
Kiski Area Upper El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Kiski Area South Primary Sch. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kiski Area South Primary Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 60.9%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Looking at the recent track record. Kiski Area South Primary Sch's enrollment has rose 3% since 2018, when it stood at 300 (now 308). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 95% to 91%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.
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