Rostraver El Sch

Set in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, Rostraver El Sch is a reasonably sized primary school, run under Belle Vernon Area SD. It teaches 660 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 443.

Belle Vernon Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,416 students; Rostraver El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rostraver El Sch lists that White students make up the majority at 80%. The remainder breaks down as 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Westmoreland County's rate of about 53%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rostraver El Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.1%; Rostraver El Sch posts 65.6%, +30.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Westmoreland County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Westmoreland County runs 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), of which Rostraver El Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Belle Vernon Area HS, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rostraver El Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rostraver El Sch has climbed 9%, going from 606 students in 2018 to 660 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 89% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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