Sunset Valley El Sch

As a reasonably sized primary school in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Sunset Valley El Sch instructs 448 students from grades K through 4, overseen by Norwin SD.

Norwin SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,951 students; Sunset Valley El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sunset Valley El Sch logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sunset Valley El Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 68.5%; this one delivers 86.8%, a residual of +18.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Westmoreland County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,109, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Westmoreland County's 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), Sunset Valley El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Hillcrest Intermediate Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunset Valley El Sch. On composite proficiency, Sunset Valley El Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Sunset Valley El Sch's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 448).

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.