Enrollment
196
Elementary
DISTRICT 347 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENN-TRAFFORD SD·NCES 421866007131
Trafford Elementary School
100 E Brinton Ave, Trafford, PA 15085 · (412) 372-6600 · Westmoreland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL196 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
92 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 34 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 33 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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
82.2%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.6pp since 2023
Math
75.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.2% | 75.2% |
| 2023-24 | 79.6% | 76.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
80.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 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 Trafford Elementary School
Trafford Elementary School's state test result (80.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trafford Elementary School this school | 196 | 46.9% | 80.2% |
| Mt Vernon Elementary School McKeesport | 194 | 47.9% | 63.0% |
| Mt Wolf Elementary School Mt Wolf | 217 | 45.2% | 58.4% |
| Greenock Elementary School McKeesport | 173 | 50.3% | N/A |
| Margaret Ross Elementary School Aliquippa | 185 | 50.3% | 67.9% |
| Horace Mann Elementary School Indiana | 190 | 45.3% | 67.7% |
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 Trafford Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Westmoreland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.2% | #107 of 1,396 | #7 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #184 of 1,511 ▼ 45 | #10 of 38 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #50 of 1,511 ▲ 73 | #3 of 38 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 196 | #1,540 of 1,638 | #40 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.9% | #1,049 of 1,600 | #25 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.4% | #917 of 1,045 | #29 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
196
-5 (-2%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 138
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 196 | 14.7 | 13.4:1 | 47% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 190 | 14.7 | 13.0:1 | 48% (92) |
| 2022-23 | 202 | 16.2 | 12.5:1 | 46% (92) |
| 2020-21 | 201 | 14 | 14.4:1 | 38% (76) |
| 2017-18 | 203 | 14.6 | 13.9:1 | 39% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 204 | 15 | 13.6:1 | 35% (72) |
| 2010-11 | 193 | 12 | 16.1:1 | 32% (62) |
| 2000-01 | 205 | 12 | 17.1:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 138 | 5 | 27.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Trafford Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (203 to 196); teachers unchanged (14.6 to 14.7).
About Trafford Elementary School
This page covers Trafford Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school in Trafford, Pennsylvania. Enrollment totals 196 students across kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average enrollment is about 443.
Penn-Trafford SD operates 8 schools. Combined enrollment is 3,773 students.
The student body at Trafford Elementary School is 79% White. Other reported shares: 10% multiracial, 7% Black, and 4% Hispanic. Westmoreland County's residents are about 92% White, 13 points above the school's share. A diversity index of 37% means there is a 37% chance two randomly chosen students at Trafford Elementary School are from different groups.
Staffing at Trafford Elementary School comes to 14.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 13.1:1. On the income side, 47% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Trafford Elementary School holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 97% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
A school in Pennsylvania with Trafford Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 57.5%. Trafford Elementary School scores 80.2%.
For Westmoreland County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $74,109 a year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Trafford Elementary School, Westmoreland County has 85 public schools.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Trafford Middle School, is the closest to Trafford Elementary School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Trafford Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Trafford Elementary School is 1st of 8 on proficiency.
Trafford Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at Trafford Elementary School was 201 in 2020-21 and 196 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
Trafford Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Penn-Trafford SD
- Penn Trafford High SchoolHigh · 1,167 students
- Penn Middle SchoolMiddle · 518 students
- McCullough Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Sunrise Elementary SchoolElementary · 412 students
- Harrison Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 409 students
- Trafford Middle SchoolMiddle · 354 students
Other schools in Trafford
- Trafford Middle SchoolMiddle · 354 students
- Level Green Elementary SchoolElementary · 269 students
Nearby schools
- Trafford Middle School0.0 mi · 354
- East Allegheny JSHS1.5 mi · 672
- Logan Elementary School1.8 mi · 727
- Propel CS-Pitcairn1.9 mi · 182
- Ramsey Elementary School2.2 mi · 335
- Stewartsville Elementary School2.4 mi · 422
Frequently asked questions
About Trafford Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Trafford Elementary School?
Trafford Elementary School enrolls approximately 196 students in grades KG-05.
Is Trafford Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Trafford Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Trafford Elementary School have?
Trafford Elementary School employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
How diverse is Trafford Elementary School?
Trafford Elementary School reports a student body of 79% White, 4% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Trafford Elementary School?
Trafford Elementary School is overseen by Penn-Trafford SD in Westmoreland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.