Mount Pleasant Area HS

As an intimate four-year high school in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, Mount Pleasant Area HS enrolls 597 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Mount Pleasant Area SD.

Mount Pleasant Area SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,832 students. Mount Pleasant Area HS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Mount Pleasant Area HS shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the resource side, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Westmoreland County (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mount Pleasant Area HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 52.8%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Westmoreland County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Mount Pleasant Area HS is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

The closest other public school is Mount Pleasant Area JHS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Pleasant Area HS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 645 students in 2018 compared to 597 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.