West Crawford El Sch

West Crawford El Sch is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, overseen by Connellsville Area SD, enrolling 487 students in grades K through 5.

West Crawford El Sch is one of 6 schools operated by Connellsville Area SD, a district that hosts 3,328 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Crawford El Sch reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 9% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at West Crawford El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, West Crawford El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.0%; this one delivers 30.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Fayette County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,236 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. West Crawford El Sch is one of 39 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students).

The closest other public school is Dunbar Twp El Sch, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around West Crawford El Sch. On composite proficiency, West Crawford El Sch comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

On this page, members of the West Crawford El Sch community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.