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Enrollment
1,244
High
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHEL PARK SD·NCES 420351000062
Bethel Park High School
309 Church Rd, Bethel Park, PA 15102 · (412) 854-8581 · Allegheny County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,244 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
91 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
267 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 282 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 297 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 345 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 320 | 26% |
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Bethel Park SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
78.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -0.5pp since 2023
Math
57.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +11.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.9% | 57.1% |
| 2023-24 | 79.4% | 46.0% |
% 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
65.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% 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 Bethel Park High School
Bethel Park High School's state test result (65.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethel Park High School this school | 1,244 | 21.5% | 65.5% |
| Crestwood Secondary Campus Mountain Top | 1,379 | 26.8% | 55.9% |
| Northern High School Dillsburg | 982 | 23.4% | 55.4% |
| Penn Trafford High School Harrison City | 1,167 | 25.0% | 87.0% |
| West Chester Bayard Rustin High School West Chester | 1,159 | 19.9% | 61.1% |
| Hampton High School Allison Park | 865 | 19.4% | 81.9% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Bethel Park High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #101 of 576 | #16 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #134 of 626 ▲ 89 | #18 of 53 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.9% | #76 of 626 ▲ 10 | #11 of 53 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,244 | #118 of 713 | #9 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #279 of 601 | #25 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.2% | #363 of 604 | #46 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.5% | #585 of 619 | #45 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.9% | #73 of 373 | #6 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,244
-138 (-10%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 1,518
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 1,244 | 91.3 | 13.6:1 | 21% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 1,291 | 93.9 | 13.8:1 | 21% (267) |
| 2022-23 | 1,338 | 95.4 | 14.0:1 | 16% (217) |
| 2020-21 | 1,382 | 94 | 14.7:1 | 15% (203) |
| 2017-18 | 1,497 | 101.4 | 14.8:1 | 11% (170) |
| 2015-16 | 1,528 | 113 | 13.5:1 | 11% (165) |
| 2010-11 | 1,711 | 126 | 13.6:1 | 7% (120) |
| 2000-01 | 1,816 | 114 | 15.9:1 | 5% (90) |
| 1990-91 | 1,518 | 108 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bethel Park High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (1,497 to 1,244); teachers down 10% (101.4 to 91.3).
About Bethel Park High School
Bethel Park High School is a high-enrollment high school in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, one of the schools in Bethel Park SD. Federal data show 1,244 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. High schools in Pennsylvania average about 738 students, which makes this school 69% above average.
In Bethel Park SD, 8 schools enroll a combined 3,996 students.
Of every 100 students at Bethel Park High School, about 88 are White. The remaining students are 4% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Allegheny County is about 76% White. A diversity index of 22% means there is a 22% chance two randomly chosen students at Bethel Park High School are from different groups.
Bethel Park High School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1, with 91.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is higher. The school has 21% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Allegheny County is 54%.
Bethel Park High School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 72% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Bethel Park High School is 2.9 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 65.5% actual, 68.4% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
The school's county is Allegheny County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 277 public schools in the county, enrolling about 141,392, Bethel Park High School among them.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, Independence Middle School, is the closest to Bethel Park High School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Bethel Park High School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 10%, from 1,382 to 1,244. The school's ratio dropped from 14.7:1 to 13.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
People who know Bethel Park High School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Bethel Park SD
- Independence Middle SchoolMiddle · 602 students
- Neil Armstrong 5-6 Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 348 students
- Bethel Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 338 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 313 students
Other schools in Bethel Park
- Independence Middle SchoolMiddle · 602 students
- Neil Armstrong 5-6 Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Bethel Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 338 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 313 students
- William Penn Elementary SchoolElementary · 212 students
Nearby schools
- Independence Middle School0.3 mi · 602
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School0.8 mi · 338
- Bethel Memorial Elementary School0.9 mi · 342
- Upper Saint Clair High School1.5 mi · 1,269
- Eisenhower Elementary School1.5 mi · 524
- George Washington Elementary School1.8 mi · 313
Frequently asked questions
About Bethel Park High SchoolHow large is Bethel Park High School?
Bethel Park High School enrolls approximately 1,244 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Bethel Park High School serve?
Bethel Park High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Bethel Park High School?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at Bethel Park High School.
How diverse is Bethel Park High School?
Bethel Park High School reports a student body of 88% White, 2% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Bethel Park High School public or private?
Bethel Park High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bethel Park SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.