Laurel Valley El Sch

Located at 137 Education Lane, in New Florence, Pennsylvania, Laurel Valley El Sch is a low-enrollment K-5 school that teaches 238 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Ligonier Valley SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Laurel Valley El Sch sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

Laurel Valley El Sch is one of 4 schools operated by Ligonier Valley SD, a district that caters to 1,335 students overall.

On demographics, Laurel Valley El Sch logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 5% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Laurel Valley El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 47.5%, a residual of +11.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Westmoreland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Laurel Valley El Sch is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

The closest other public school is Westmont Hilltop JSHS, roughly 7.4 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Laurel Valley El Sch comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Laurel Valley El Sch operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Laurel Valley El Sch has contracted 10%, going from 264 students in 2018 to 238 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 98% to 89% over that span.

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