Laurel Highlands MS

Laurel Highlands MS operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, operated by Laurel Highlands SD. Current enrollment sits at 662 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Laurel Highlands SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,647 students. Laurel Highlands MS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Laurel Highlands MS records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 9% multiracial, 5% Black.

Looking at school resources, Laurel Highlands MS shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Laurel Highlands MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fayette County runs at roughly 92%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Laurel Highlands MS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.4%; this one comes in at 38.2%, -19.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Fayette County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $58,236 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Laurel Highlands MS is one of 39 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ben Franklin Sch, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Laurel Highlands MS. On composite proficiency, Laurel Highlands MS comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Laurel Highlands MS's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 702 (now 662). Over the same period, the White share declined from 87% to 82%.

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