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Enrollment
626
Middle
DISTRICT 586 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HEMPFIELD AREA SD·NCES 421176009952
Wendover Middle School
425 Wendover Jr High Dr, Greensburg, PA 15601 · (724) 838-4070 · Westmoreland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL626 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
198 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 211 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 208 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 207 | 33% |
Student demographics
20%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Hempfield Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
68.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.2pp since 2023
Math
48.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 48.8% |
| 2023-24 | 70.2% | 41.1% |
% 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
58.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Wendover Middle School
Wendover Middle School's state test result (58.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendover Middle School this school | 626 | 31.6% | 58.1% |
| North Pocono Middle School Moscow | 685 | 35.9% | 55.0% |
| Bellefonte Area Middle School Bellefonte | 591 | 36.0% | 51.1% |
| Highland Middle School Beaver Falls | 698 | 36.1% | 43.8% |
| Northern Middle School Dillsburg | 757 | 29.1% | 48.9% |
| Hillcrest Intermediate School North Huntingdon | 755 | 27.8% | 74.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania middle 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 Wendover Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Westmoreland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #122 of 479 | #7 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #128 of 513 ▲ 68 | #7 of 19 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #89 of 513 ▼ 4 | #7 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 626 | #217 of 522 | #4 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #344 of 486 | #12 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.6% | #390 of 486 | #5 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.6% | #402 of 510 | #14 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +37.9% | #9 of 131 | #1 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
626
+160 (+34%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 546
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 626 | 44.4 | 14.1:1 | 32% (198) |
| 2023-24 | 599 | 53.5 | 11.2:1 | 33% (198) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 30.7 | 14.0:1 | 32% (138) |
| 2020-21 | 466 | 31 | 15.0:1 | 22% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 454 | 32.9 | 13.8:1 | 24% (108) |
| 2015-16 | 483 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 19% (91) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | 36 | 12.7:1 | 16% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 552 | 35 | 15.8:1 | 10% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 546 | 34 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wendover Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 38% (454 to 626); teachers up 35% (32.9 to 44.4).
About Wendover Middle School
Wendover Middle School is a public middle school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. It covers grades 6 through 8, with a total enrollment of 626 students.
Hempfield Area SD counts 5,015 students in its 9 schools, and Wendover Middle School is one of them.
Federal enrollment data show Wendover Middle School is 89% White. Enrollment also includes 6% multiracial. County-wide, about 92% of residents are White. Wendover Middle School's diversity index is 20%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at Wendover Middle School total 44.4 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.1:1. That is 0.9 students per teacher above the 13.2:1 average for middle schools in Pennsylvania. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 32%. Compared with the 53% average for public schools in Westmoreland County, the school's rate is lower.
Wendover Middle School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 70% of Pennsylvania public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, Wendover Middle School is 5.9 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools.
Federal survey data for Westmoreland County show that the median household income is $74,109, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 85 public schools in Westmoreland County, enrolling about 41,302 students in all.
The closest public school to Wendover Middle School is West Point Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. Wendover Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 61.9% proficiency; Wendover Middle School posts 58.1%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 626, a 34% gain from 466 in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Wendover Middle School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- West Hempfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 546 students
- Stanwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
- West Hempfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
- Fort Allen Elementary SchoolElementary · 480 students
- Maxwell Elementary SchoolElementary · 380 students
Other schools in Greensburg
- Hempfield Area SHSHigh · 1,228 students
- Greensburg-Salem High SchoolHigh · 784 students
- Greensburg-Salem Middle SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Mountain View Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Amos K Hutchinson Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
- Fort Allen Elementary SchoolElementary · 480 students
Nearby schools
- West Point Elementary School0.4 mi · 372
- Amos K Hutchinson Elementary School2.0 mi · 521
- Greensburg-Salem Middle School2.8 mi · 568
- Mountain View Elementary School3.4 mi · 534
- Nicely Elementary School3.8 mi · 296
- Greensburg-Salem High School4.0 mi · 784
Frequently asked questions
About Wendover Middle SchoolHow large is Wendover Middle School?
Wendover Middle School enrolls approximately 626 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Wendover Middle School serve?
Wendover Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Wendover Middle School have?
Wendover Middle School employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Wendover Middle School?
Student demographics at Wendover Middle School are roughly 89% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Wendover Middle School in?
Wendover Middle School is part of Hempfield Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.