Brentwood MS

Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Brentwood MS is a low-enrollment middle school, one of the schools within Brentwood Borough SD. It works with 269 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 55% leaner than the state mean of about 594.

Brentwood Borough SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,106 students; Brentwood MS is among them.

Demographically, Brentwood MS shows that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 13% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Brentwood MS reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 57% of students at Brentwood MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brentwood MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) reports that median household earnings sit near $78,548, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Brentwood MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Brentwood SHS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Brentwood MS comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Brentwood MS's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 293 (now 269). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 81% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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