Norvelt El Sch

Norvelt El Sch operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, operated by Mount Pleasant Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 457 students spanning grades K through 3.

Within Mount Pleasant Area SD, which oversees 5 schools and 1,832 students, Norvelt El Sch is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Norvelt El Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Norvelt El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Westmoreland County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Westmoreland County runs 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), of which Norvelt El Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Mount Pleasant Area HS, roughly 2.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Norvelt El Sch. On composite proficiency, Norvelt El Sch comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 18%: 386 students in 2018 compared to 457 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 98% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.