Kiski Area Upper El Sch

Kiski Area Upper El Sch operates as a close-knit middle school in Apollo, Pennsylvania, operated by Kiski Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 502 students spanning grades 5 through 6.

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

On the student-mix side, Kiski Area Upper El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest consists of 6% Black, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Kiski Area Upper El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Westmoreland County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Kiski Area Upper El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.2%; this one delivers 47.3%.

In the surrounding 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 the poverty rate sits near 7%. Kiski Area Upper El Sch is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

Kiski Area HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kiski Area Upper El Sch ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kiski Area Upper El Sch has decreased 9%, going from 550 students in 2018 to 502 in 2025.

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