Yough SHS

Yough SHS is a high school of close-knit scale in Herminie, Pennsylvania, run under Yough SD, educateing 592 students in grades 9 through 12.

Yough SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,818 students; Yough SHS is among them.

On demographics, Yough SHS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Westmoreland County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Yough SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.9%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -17.0 points.

Around the school, Westmoreland County reports that median household income runs about $74,109, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Westmoreland County's 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), Yough SHS is one campus in the mix.

H W Good El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yough SHS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 71.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yough SHS has shrank 13%, going from 684 students in 2018 to 592 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 96% to 91%.

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