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Enrollment
380
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HEMPFIELD AREA SD·NCES 421176004394
Maxwell Elementary School
1101 Old Salem Rd, Greensburg, PA 15601 · (724) 850-3500 · Westmoreland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL380 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
102 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
72.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.1pp since 2023
Math
77.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.6% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 76.7% | 75.7% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
78.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Maxwell Elementary School
Maxwell Elementary School's state test result (78.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxwell Elementary School this school | 380 | 26.8% | 78.7% |
| Marion-Walker Elementary School Bellefonte | 353 | 26.9% | 70.4% |
| South Mountain Elementary School Dillsburg | 389 | 28.8% | 61.5% |
| Burchfield Primary School Allison Park | 339 | 26.5% | 84.8% |
| Stewartsville Elementary School North Huntingdon | 422 | 27.0% | 78.5% |
| Northwestern Lehigh Elementary School New Tripoli | 396 | 28.5% | 53.9% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Maxwell Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Westmoreland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.7% | #132 of 1,396 | #8 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #153 of 1,511 ▼ 7 | #7 of 38 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #170 of 1,511 ▲ 9 | #12 of 38 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 380 | #953 of 1,638 | #27 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #975 of 1,528 | #20 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.5% | #1,315 of 1,531 | #32 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.8% | #1,365 of 1,600 | #35 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.0% | #738 of 1,045 | #23 of 33 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
380
-34 (-8%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 432
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 380 | 27.8 | 13.7:1 | 27% (102) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 28.5 | 13.8:1 | 26% (102) |
| 2022-23 | 422 | 28.5 | 14.8:1 | 25% (105) |
| 2020-21 | 414 | 28 | 14.8:1 | 19% (80) |
| 2017-18 | 413 | 26.5 | 15.6:1 | 19% (79) |
| 2015-16 | 434 | 27 | 16.1:1 | 18% (79) |
| 2010-11 | 384 | 27 | 14.2:1 | 16% (62) |
| 2000-01 | 424 | 26 | 16.3:1 | 16% (66) |
| 1990-91 | 432 | 20 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maxwell Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (413 to 380); teachers up 5% (26.5 to 27.8).
About Maxwell Elementary School
Maxwell Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, one of the schools in Hempfield Area SD. It enrolled 380 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Hempfield Area SD is the district for Maxwell Elementary School. It has 9 schools and 5,015 students.
Most students at Maxwell Elementary School are White: 92% of enrollment. Smaller groups are 4% multiracial. For comparison, Westmoreland County is about 92% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Maxwell Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 14%.
Federal staffing data show 27.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at Maxwell Elementary School and a ratio of 13.7:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 13.1:1, a similar figure. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 27% of students. On average, public schools in Westmoreland County report 53%.
Maxwell Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 91% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 66.1% for Maxwell Elementary School. The school posts 78.7%, 12.6 points above the prediction.
Within Westmoreland County, median household income is about $74,109, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Westmoreland County number 85 and enroll about 41,302.
The shortest distance from Maxwell Elementary School to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Greensburg-Salem High School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Maxwell Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Federal data place Maxwell Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 380 was 8% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 414. The number of students per teacher fell from 14.8 to 13.7 over 4 years.
Community posts for Maxwell Elementary School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Westmoreland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
352,500
Census ACS
Median income
$74,109
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
85
41,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hempfield Area SD
- Hempfield Area SHSHigh · 1,228 students
- Wendover Middle SchoolMiddle · 626 students
- West Hempfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 546 students
- Stanwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
- West Hempfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
- Fort Allen Elementary SchoolElementary · 480 students
Other schools in Greensburg
- Hempfield Area SHSHigh · 1,228 students
- Greensburg-Salem High SchoolHigh · 784 students
- Wendover Middle SchoolMiddle · 626 students
- Greensburg-Salem Middle SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Mountain View Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Amos K Hutchinson Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
Other Maxwell Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Maxwell Elementary. Maxwell Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 7.
- Maxwell Elementary SchoolDENVER, CO · 638 students
- Maxwell Elementary SchoolDuncanville, AL · 511 students
- Maxwell Elementary SchoolThomson, GA · 436 students
- Maxwell ElementaryMaxwell, CA · 124 students
- MAXWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMAXWELL, NE · 124 students
Nearby schools
- Greensburg-Salem High School0.4 mi · 784
- Nicely Elementary School0.5 mi · 296
- Greensburg-Salem Middle School1.7 mi · 568
- Amos K Hutchinson Elementary School2.8 mi · 521
- Jeannette High School3.5 mi · 405
- Jeannette McKee Elementary School4.0 mi · 504
Frequently asked questions
About Maxwell Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Maxwell Elementary School?
Maxwell Elementary School enrolls approximately 380 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Maxwell Elementary School serve?
Maxwell Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Maxwell Elementary School?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Maxwell Elementary School.
How diverse is Maxwell Elementary School?
Maxwell Elementary School reports a student body of 92% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Maxwell Elementary School in?
Maxwell Elementary School is part of Hempfield Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.