Southmoreland El Sch

As a medium-sized K-5 school in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Southmoreland El Sch enrolls 548 students from grades 2 through 5, operated by Southmoreland SD. Enrollment runs roughly 24% above the state mean of about 443.

Southmoreland SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,801 students. Southmoreland El Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Southmoreland El Sch logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Southmoreland El Sch has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Southmoreland El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at Southmoreland El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Westmoreland County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Southmoreland El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -5.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Westmoreland County put median household earnings sit near $74,109, 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 Southmoreland El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Southmoreland MS, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Southmoreland El Sch at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 48.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southmoreland El Sch has contracted 10%, going from 606 students in 2018 to 548 in 2025.

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