Wendover MS

Wendover MS is a medium-sized intermediate school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, overseen by Hempfield Area SD. The school educates 626 students in grades 6 through 8.

Wendover MS is one of 9 schools operated by Hempfield Area SD, a district that serves 5,015 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Wendover MS logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Westmoreland County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Wendover MS shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 32% of students at Wendover MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wendover MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.0%; this one delivers 58.1%.

In the broader community, Westmoreland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Wendover MS is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Point El Sch, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wendover MS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 38%: 454 students in 2018 compared to 626 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Wendover MS community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.