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Enrollment
478
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AVONWORTH SD·NCES 420282000034
Avonworth Elementary School
1320 Roosevelt Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237 · (412) 366-7170 · Allegheny County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL478 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
103 students
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 163 | 34% |
| Grade 4 | 149 | 31% |
| Grade 5 | 166 | 35% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Avonworth SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
61.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -11.4pp since 2023
Math
65.4%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.4% | 65.4% |
| 2023-24 | 72.8% | 66.8% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Avonworth Elementary School
Avonworth Elementary School's state test result (69.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avonworth Elementary School this school | 478 | 21.5% | 69.3% |
| McCullough Elementary School Jeannette | 448 | 23.0% | 84.4% |
| Sunset Valley Elementary School North Huntingdon | 448 | 21.2% | 86.8% |
| Ross Elementary School Pittsburgh | 498 | 25.1% | 79.3% |
| Rowan Elementary School Cranberry Twp | 494 | 19.6% | 76.3% |
| Dillsburg Elementary School Dillsburg | 440 | 24.8% | 71.4% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Avonworth Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #309 of 1,396 | #58 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.4% | #383 of 1,511 ▼ 81 | #61 of 141 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.4% | #389 of 1,511 ▼ 125 | #64 of 141 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 478 | #595 of 1,638 | #38 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #932 of 1,528 | #81 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.4% | #1,114 of 1,531 | #123 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.5% | #1,425 of 1,600 | #119 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.8% | #526 of 1,045 | #34 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
478
-89 (-16%) vs 2020
+50% since 1990-91, when it was 318
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 21.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 478 | 35.3 | 13.5:1 | 22% (103) |
| 2023-24 | 621 | 35.6 | 17.4:1 | 17% (103) |
| 2022-23 | 612 | 37.6 | 16.3:1 | 13% (78) |
| 2020-21 | 567 | 27 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 548 | 24.8 | 22.1:1 | 15% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 26 | 14.8:1 | 14% (53) |
| 2010-11 | 705 | 50 | 14.1:1 | 11% (76) |
| 2000-01 | 572 | 32 | 17.9:1 | 11% (61) |
| 1990-91 | 318 | 13 | 24.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Avonworth Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (548 to 478); teachers up 42% (24.8 to 35.3).
About Avonworth Elementary School
Avonworth Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There are 478 students enrolled, covering grades 3 through 5.
Avonworth SD is the district for Avonworth Elementary School. It has 4 schools and 1,926 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Avonworth Elementary School is White, at 87%. Other reported shares: 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black, and 2% Asian. Allegheny County's residents are about 76% White, 11 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 23%.
Avonworth Elementary School lists 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.5 students per teacher. The average ratio among elementary schools in Pennsylvania is similar, at 13.1:1. About 22% of students at Avonworth Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 32 points below the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County.
On the allk12 Grade, Avonworth Elementary School lands at B, ahead of 64% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Test results at Avonworth Elementary School are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (69.3% actual, 68.4% predicted).
The school's county is Allegheny County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $78,548, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 277 public schools in the county, enrolling about 141,392, Avonworth Elementary School among them.
Measured in a straight line, Avonworth Primary Center is less than a tenth of a mile from Avonworth Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 69.3% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 8 nearby schools.
Avonworth Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
The school's enrollment fell 16% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 21.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.5:1.
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Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Avonworth SD
- Avonworth High SchoolHigh · 579 students
- Avonworth Middle SchoolMiddle · 446 students
- Avonworth Primary CenterElementary · 423 students
Other schools in Pittsburgh
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Baldwin SHSHigh · 1,657 students
- North Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Pittsburgh Allderdice High SchoolHigh · 1,386 students
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Upper Saint Clair High SchoolHigh · 1,269 students
Nearby schools
- Avonworth Primary Center0.1 mi · 423
- Avonworth Middle School1.1 mi · 446
- Avonworth High School1.1 mi · 579
- Highcliff Elementary School2.3 mi · 519
- Ingomar Middle School2.9 mi · 514
- Franklin Elementary School3.1 mi · 718
Frequently asked questions
About Avonworth Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Avonworth Elementary School?
Avonworth Elementary School enrolls approximately 478 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does Avonworth Elementary School serve?
Avonworth Elementary School serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Avonworth Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Avonworth Elementary School is approximately 13.5:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Avonworth Elementary School?
Student demographics at Avonworth Elementary School are roughly 87% White, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Avonworth Elementary School?
Avonworth Elementary School is overseen by Avonworth SD in Allegheny County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.