West Hills Intermediate Sch

Set in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, West Hills Intermediate Sch is an intimate 6-8 campus, run under Armstrong SD. It caters to 424 students across grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so West Hills Intermediate Sch sits 29% leaner than that benchmark.

West Hills Intermediate Sch is one of 8 schools operated by Armstrong SD, a district that instructs 4,240 students overall.

On demographics, West Hills Intermediate Sch records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, West Hills Intermediate Sch has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 103% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Armstrong County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, West Hills Intermediate Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Armstrong County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,008 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Armstrong County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,972 students), West Hills Intermediate Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: West Hills Primary Sch, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around West Hills Intermediate Sch. On composite proficiency, West Hills Intermediate Sch comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 22%: 546 students in 2018 compared to 424 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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