West Hempfield MS

West Hempfield MS is one of the moderately sized intermediate schools in Irwin, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Hempfield Area SD, with 546 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Hempfield Area SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,015 students. West Hempfield MS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, West Hempfield MS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Westmoreland County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, West Hempfield MS has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, West Hempfield MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 52.8%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Westmoreland County put the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Westmoreland County runs 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), of which West Hempfield MS is one.

The closest other public school is West Hempfield El Sch, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, West Hempfield MS comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Hempfield MS has expanded 33%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 546 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 90% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.