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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

West Hempfield Middle School, Irwin, PA

West Hempfield Middle School is a public middle school in Irwin, part of Hempfield Area SD. It enrolled 546 students in 2024-25, with 12.7 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "West Hempfield MS".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
546
Teachers (FTE)
43.0
Students per teacher
12.7
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.3 lower than the district figure of 14.0. The Pennsylvania average across schools is 13.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.7
District14.0
Pennsylvania13.5
United States15.3

School details

Address
156 Northumberland Road, Irwin, PA 15642
Phone
(724)850-2140
District
Hempfield Area SD
County
Westmoreland County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
421176009953
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
239
Reduced-price lunch
18
Free or reduced-price lunch
25747.1% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Hempfield Area SD

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.