Yough Intrmd/MS Sch

Located at 171 Route 31, in Ruffsdale, Pennsylvania, Yough Intrmd/MS Sch is a middle-of-the-pack middle school that serves 541 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by Yough SD.

Within Yough SD, which oversees 5 schools and 1,818 students, Yough Intrmd/MS Sch is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Yough Intrmd/MS Sch lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Westmoreland County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Yough Intrmd/MS Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Yough Intrmd/MS Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.6%, the actual is 41.2%, a residual of -14.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Westmoreland County put 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%. Across Westmoreland County's 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), Yough Intrmd/MS Sch is one campus in the mix.

Mendon El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Yough Intrmd/MS Sch. On composite proficiency, Yough Intrmd/MS Sch comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 557 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025.

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