Trafford El Sch

Trafford El Sch operates as a modestly sized elementary school in Trafford, Pennsylvania, operated by Penn-Trafford SD. Current enrollment sits at 196 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 443.

Within Penn-Trafford SD, which oversees 8 schools and 3,773 students, Trafford El Sch is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Trafford El Sch reports that 79% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 10% multiracial, 7% Black, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 92% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 47% of students at Trafford El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Trafford El Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 57.5%; Trafford El Sch posts 80.2%, +22.7 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Westmoreland County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Westmoreland County runs 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), of which Trafford El Sch is one.

Trafford MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Trafford El Sch. On composite proficiency, Trafford El Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Trafford El Sch has declined 3%, going from 203 students in 2018 to 196 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 93% to 79% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.