Menallen Sch

As a compact K-5 school in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Menallen Sch enrolls 318 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Uniontown Area SD. That puts it 28% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Menallen Sch is one of 9 schools operated by Uniontown Area SD, a district that serves 2,485 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Menallen Sch shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 13% multiracial, 5% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.

On the income-and-resources front, Menallen Sch shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fayette County (around 92%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Menallen Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 34.9%; this one delivers 51.6%, a residual of +16.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fayette County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,236 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Fayette County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students), of which Menallen Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Laurel Highlands MS, roughly 3.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Menallen Sch. On composite proficiency, Menallen Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 326 students in 2018 compared to 318 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.