Roy A. Hunt El Sch

Roy A. Hunt El Sch is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Arnold, Pennsylvania, part of New Kensington-Arnold SD, teacheing 609 students in grades 3 through 6. That puts it 37% above the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

New Kensington-Arnold SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,950 students; Roy A. Hunt El Sch is among them.

On demographics, Roy A. Hunt El Sch shows that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 36% White, 23% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 3%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Westmoreland County (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Roy A. Hunt El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Westmoreland County put 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 Roy A. Hunt El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Berkey Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roy A. Hunt El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 37.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 669 students in 2018 compared to 609 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 48% to 36%.

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