Bethel Park HS

Bethel Park HS is one of the large high schools in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, operated by Bethel Park SD, with 1,244 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 69% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Within Bethel Park SD, which oversees 8 schools and 3,996 students, Bethel Park HS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bethel Park HS shows that nearly all students (88%) are White. The remainder comes out to 4% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 21% of students at Bethel Park HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bethel Park HS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.4%; this one delivers 65.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) logs that median household income runs about $78,548, 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), Bethel Park HS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Independence MS, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bethel Park HS comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 78.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 1,497 students in 2018 compared to 1,244 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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