Maxwell El Sch

Maxwell El Sch operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, overseen by Hempfield Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 380 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Hempfield Area SD, which oversees 9 schools and 5,015 students, Maxwell El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Maxwell El Sch reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Maxwell El Sch logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Maxwell El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.1%, the actual is 78.7%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the broader community, Westmoreland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Maxwell El Sch is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

Nearest neighbor: Greensburg-Salem HS, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Maxwell El Sch comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Maxwell El Sch's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 413 (now 380). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.