West Hills Primary Sch

Set in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, West Hills Primary Sch is a medium-sized primary school, run under Armstrong SD. It hosts 522 students across grades K through 3.

Armstrong SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,240 students; West Hills Primary Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, West Hills Primary Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). That composition is broadly in line with Armstrong County as a whole.

On the resource side, West Hills Primary Sch records 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting West Hills Primary Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 103% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Armstrong County's rate of about 90%.

With demographic context factored in, West Hills Primary Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.5%; actual is 61.4%, +27.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Armstrong County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,008 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Primary Sch is one campus in the mix.

West Hills Intermediate Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts West Hills Primary Sch at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 60.4%.

West Hills Primary Sch operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Hills Primary Sch has decreased 20%, going from 653 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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