The top reported proficiency rate is 94% in Science. The lowest is 69% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on West Point El Sch
West Point Elementary is a kindergarten-through-fifth-grade school serving about four hundred students in Greensburg, the Westmoreland County seat. The school feeds into Hempfield Area School District, which covers a wider region and is currently managing significant transitions.
On academic performance, West Point shows mixed results across state assessments. In mathematics, the school's proficiency rate sits near 70 percent, while English language arts proficiency is also around that level. Science performance is notably stronger, with proficiency in the low-to-mid 90s on the most recent test. These results place the school in the top quartile for proficiency across tested subjects relative to other districts in Westmoreland County, a meaningful strength. The student composition is predominantly white, with a small Asian population and very small numbers of Black, Hispanic, and multiracial students. About one-third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting moderate economic need within the catchment area.
Enrollment is stable at around four hundred students, distributed fairly evenly across grades, with the largest cohort in fifth grade. The school operates as a regular public elementary without special charter or magnet designation. State testing data on individual education plan rates and English learner populations was not available.
Greensburg itself is the commercial hub of the Laurel Highlands and serves as the county seat. The city has a walkable downtown anchored on Main and Pittsburgh Streets with independent shops, cafes, and cultural institutions like the Palace Theatre and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Outside the core, the city is car-dependent and oriented to retail corridors. The area is in an active revitalization phase, with downtown housing projects underway and neighborhood growth on the city's northern edge. Housing values in the area are moderate relative to state and national benchmarks, and rental costs have risen modestly in recent quarters.
The district is navigating several parent-relevant changes. A consolidation of its three middle schools into two has reassigned sixth through eighth grade students and redrawn attendance boundaries for some neighborhoods. More substantially, a multi-year high school renovation is underway, funded by a 2022 bond, with construction expected to continue through mid-2029. During this period, ninth graders are housed outside the main building, a long-term disruption families should know about. The district also approved a roughly 5 percent property tax increase for 2024-25, the second significant driver of cost for homeowners in the catchment area. That budget round included elimination of library and teaching positions, changes parents may notice in school staffing levels.
For a parent considering West Point, the school offers solid academic performance, particularly in science, and serves a small, fairly homogeneous student body in an economically mixed elementary population. The broader district context includes both infrastructure investment and budget constraints that shape the operational environment. A parent may want to learn more from the school directly about how it supports the roughly one-third of students qualifying for free and reduced lunch, and how the district's staffing changes are distributed across elementary schools.
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