Barrett El Sch

Set in Homestead, Pennsylvania, Barrett El Sch is an intimate elementary-level community, overseen by Steel Valley SD. It serves 225 students across grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 49% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Barrett El Sch is one of 4 schools operated by Steel Valley SD, a district that instructs 1,409 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Barrett El Sch shows that Black students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 11% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Barrett El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Barrett El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of -15.4 points.

In the broader community, Allegheny County reports that median household income runs about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Barrett El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Propel CS-Homestead, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barrett El Sch. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barrett El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Barrett El Sch's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 225 (now 225). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 0% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.8:1 in 2018 to 7.2:1 today.

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