Catalyst Academy CS

As a close-knit primary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Catalyst Academy CS serves 315 students from grades K through 5, part of Catalyst Academy CS. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Operationally, Catalyst Academy CS answers to Catalyst Academy CS, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Catalyst Academy CS shows that nearly all students (88%) are Black. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at Catalyst Academy CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Catalyst Academy CS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.1%; actual is 17.7%, a gap of -27.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Allegheny County shows median household earnings sit near $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. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Catalyst Academy CS is one.

Pittsburgh Westinghouse is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Catalyst Academy CS. On composite proficiency, Catalyst Academy CS comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site. Catalyst Academy CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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