1
What's one community event at Stanwood El Sch more people should show up to?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
518
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HEMPFIELD AREA SD·NCES 421176005359
Stanwood Elementary School
255 Arona Rd, New Stanton, PA 15672 · (724) 838-4000 · Westmoreland County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL518 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 82% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
245 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
60.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.4pp since 2023
Math
68.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.3% | 68.1% |
| 2023-24 | 66.7% | 70.2% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Stanwood Elementary School
Stanwood Elementary School's state test result (68.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stanwood Elementary School this school | 518 | 47.3% | 68.8% |
| Selinsgrove Intrmd School Selinsgrove | 535 | 48.8% | 61.4% |
| Fort Allen Elementary School Greensburg | 480 | 47.1% | 65.4% |
| Pine Grove Elementary School Pine Grove | 563 | 48.1% | 65.9% |
| Lackawanna Trail El Center Factoryville | 505 | 50.9% | 53.8% |
| Montgomery Elementary School Montgomery | 504 | 50.2% | 56.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Stanwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Westmoreland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #328 of 1,396 | #16 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #311 of 1,511 ▼ 71 | #15 of 38 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #422 of 1,511 ▼ 4 | #17 of 38 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 518 | #482 of 1,638 | #10 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #888 of 1,528 | #14 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.4% | #1,198 of 1,531 | #21 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.3% | #1,044 of 1,600 | #23 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #369 of 1,045 | #8 of 33 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
518
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 518 | 38.6 | 13.4:1 | 47% (245) |
| 2023-24 | 510 | 38.2 | 13.3:1 | 48% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 517 | 41.4 | 12.5:1 | 43% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 526 | 41 | 12.8:1 | 38% (201) |
| 2017-18 | 628 | 41.4 | 15.2:1 | 41% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 630 | 40 | 15.8:1 | 35% (220) |
| 2010-11 | 630 | 37 | 17.0:1 | 27% (172) |
| 2000-01 | 596 | 34 | 17.5:1 | 22% (131) |
| 1990-91 | 670 | 36 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stanwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (628 to 518); teachers down 7% (41.4 to 38.6).
About Stanwood Elementary School
Students in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, attend Stanwood Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school's 518 students are in pre-K through 5.
Hempfield Area SD runs Stanwood Elementary School along with 8 other schools, enrolling 5,015 students in total.
The large majority of students at Stanwood Elementary School, 90%, are White. Next come 5% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. County-wide, about 92% of residents are White. Stanwood Elementary School has a diversity index of 19%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Dividing enrollment by its 38.6 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 13.4:1. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is about 13.1:1. Eligible students account for 47% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program.
allk12 grades Stanwood Elementary School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 57.3% at Stanwood Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 68.8%.
Westmoreland County has about 352,500 residents, and median household income is about $74,109, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 85 public schools in Westmoreland County, with a combined enrollment of about 41,302.
The next-closest public school is Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center, about 0.2 miles away. In all, 6 other public schools sit within five miles of Stanwood Elementary School. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Stanwood Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's size has been steady, with 526 students in 2020-21 and 518 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Stanwood Elementary School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Westmoreland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
352,500
Census ACS
Median income
$74,109
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
85
41,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hempfield Area SD
- Hempfield Area SHSHigh · 1,228 students
- Wendover Middle SchoolMiddle · 626 students
- West Hempfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 546 students
- West Hempfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
- Fort Allen Elementary SchoolElementary · 480 students
- Maxwell Elementary SchoolElementary · 380 students
Other schools in New Stanton
- Central Westmoreland Career and Technology CenterHigh · 5 students
Other Stanwood Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Stanwood Elementary. Stanwood Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Stanwood Elementary SchoolSTANWOOD, WA · 430 students
Nearby schools
- Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center0.2 mi · 5
- Fort Allen Elementary School3.5 mi · 480
- Harrold School3.7 mi · 369
- Hempfield Area SHS3.8 mi · 1,228
- Yough Intrmd/MS School4.9 mi · 541
- Mendon Elementary School4.9 mi · 234
Frequently asked questions
About Stanwood Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Stanwood Elementary School?
Stanwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 518 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Stanwood Elementary School serve?
Stanwood Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Stanwood Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Stanwood Elementary School is approximately 13.4:1 (39 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Stanwood Elementary School?
Stanwood Elementary School reports a student body of 90% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Stanwood Elementary School public or private?
Stanwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hempfield Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.