Enrollment
339
Elementary
DISTRICT 295 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHALER AREA SD·NCES 422120004696
Burchfield Primary School
1500 Burchfield Rd, Allison Park, PA 15101 · (412) 492-1200 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL339 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
90 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 95 | 28% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 23% |
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Burchfield Primary School→Shaler Area Elementary School→Shaler Area Middle School→Shaler Area High School
Based on grade levels within Shaler Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
75.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -14.4pp since 2023
Math
82.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -9.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.6% | 82.1% |
| 2023-24 | 90.0% | 91.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
84.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 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 Burchfield Primary School
Burchfield Primary School's state test result (84.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burchfield Primary School this school | 339 | 26.5% | 84.8% |
| Marion-Walker Elementary School Bellefonte | 353 | 26.9% | 70.4% |
| Maxwell Elementary School Greensburg | 380 | 26.8% | 78.7% |
| South Mountain Elementary School Dillsburg | 389 | 28.8% | 61.5% |
| Northwestern Lehigh Elementary School New Tripoli | 396 | 28.5% | 53.9% |
| College Square Elementary School Beaver | 400 | 28.5% | N/A |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary 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 Burchfield Primary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.8% | #41 of 1,396 | #17 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #86 of 1,511 ▼ 79 | #30 of 141 ▼ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.6% | #120 of 1,511 ▼ 104 | #34 of 141 ▼ 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 339 | #1,109 of 1,638 | #89 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #865 of 1,528 | #72 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.7% | #1,211 of 1,531 | #132 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.5% | #1,370 of 1,600 | #110 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #594 of 1,045 | #38 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
339
-7 (-2%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 339 | 25.4 | 13.3:1 | 27% (90) |
| 2023-24 | 336 | 25.4 | 13.2:1 | 27% (90) |
| 2022-23 | 349 | 25.4 | 13.7:1 | 26% (89) |
| 2020-21 | 346 | 24 | 14.4:1 | 28% (96) |
| 2017-18 | 382 | 26.1 | 14.6:1 | 33% (127) |
| 2015-16 | 399 | 28 | 14.3:1 | 26% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 344 | 27 | 12.7:1 | 25% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 578 | 34 | 17.0:1 | 13% (76) |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 33 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Burchfield Primary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (382 to 339); teachers down 3% (26.1 to 25.4).
About Burchfield Primary School
Burchfield Primary School runs as a small elementary school in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. The school offers kindergarten through 3 and enrolls 339 students. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 443, and this school is 23% below that mark.
The 7 schools of Shaler Area SD, including Burchfield Primary School, enroll 3,800 students.
The share of White students at Burchfield Primary School is 90%. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, and 3% Black. The county population is about 76% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Burchfield Primary School scores 19%.
Teacher count: 25.4 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.3:1. The 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is close to this figure. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 27%. The average for public schools in Allegheny County is 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Burchfield Primary School lands at A+, ahead of 97% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Burchfield Primary School ranks in the top 10% in Pennsylvania. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 84.8%, against a prediction of 66.2%.
In the wider Allegheny County area, 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. Allegheny County's 277 public schools enroll about 141,392 students and include Burchfield Primary School.
Measured in a straight line, Shaler Area Middle School is about 1.7 miles from Burchfield Primary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Burchfield Primary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 339, close to the 346 recorded in 2020-21. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.4:1 to 13.3:1.
The Burchfield Primary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Shaler Area SD
- Shaler Area High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Shaler Area Elementary SchoolMiddle · 870 students
- Shaler Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 589 students
- Scott Primary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Marzolf Primary SchoolElementary · 337 students
- Reserve Primary SchoolElementary · 111 students
Other schools in Allison Park
- Hampton High SchoolHigh · 865 students
- Hampton Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Wyland Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- Hosack Elementary SchoolElementary · 348 students
- A W Beattie Career CenterHigh · 7 students
Nearby schools
- Shaler Area Middle School1.7 mi · 589
- Central Elementary School1.9 mi · 456
- Wyland Elementary School2.1 mi · 358
- Shaler Area Elementary School2.1 mi · 870
- Scott Primary School2.2 mi · 394
- Fairview Elementary School2.3 mi · 387
Frequently asked questions
About Burchfield Primary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Burchfield Primary School?
Burchfield Primary School enrolls approximately 339 students in grades KG-03.
Is Burchfield Primary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Burchfield Primary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-03.
How many teachers does Burchfield Primary School have?
Burchfield Primary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Burchfield Primary School?
Student demographics at Burchfield Primary School are roughly 90% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Burchfield Primary School in?
Burchfield Primary School is part of Shaler Area SD.
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