Bellevue El Sch

Bellevue El Sch is a compact K-5 school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Northgate SD. The school hosts 348 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Bellevue El Sch sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.

Bellevue El Sch is one of 3 schools operated by Northgate SD, a district that serves 1,076 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Bellevue El Sch lists that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 20% Black, 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Bellevue El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bellevue El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of +12.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Allegheny County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Bellevue El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Avalon El Sch, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bellevue El Sch comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 340 students in 2018 compared to 348 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 67% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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