Enrollment
229
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST MIFFLIN AREA SD·NCES 422568000528
Clara Barton Elementary School
764 Beverly Dr, West Mifflin, PA 15122 · (412) 466-9131 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL229 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B-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
12.3:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
226 students
DISTRICT 97% · 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 | 63 | 28% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 27% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 27% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Based on grade levels within West Mifflin Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
46.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.2pp since 2023
Math
62.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +9.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.7% | 62.3% |
| 2023-24 | 48.9% | 53.2% |
% 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
52.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% 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 17 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 Clara Barton Elementary School
Clara Barton Elementary School's state test result (52.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clara Barton Elementary School this school | 229 | 98.7% | 52.8% |
| West Pottsgrove Elementary School Stowe | 252 | 98.8% | N/A |
| Falling Spring Elementary School Chambersburg | 256 | 94.5% | 57.8% |
| Crafton Elementary School Pittsburgh | 291 | 95.9% | 66.2% |
| Broad Street Elementary School Butler | 228 | 98.7% | 38.2% |
| South Hamilton Elementary School Chambersburg | 275 | 97.1% | 60.8% |
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 Clara Barton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #798 of 1,396 | #79 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #471 of 1,511 ▲ 190 | #67 of 141 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #834 of 1,511 ▲ 110 | #83 of 141 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 229 | #1,467 of 1,638 | #133 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #537 of 1,528 | #46 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.2% | #334 of 1,531 | #37 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.7% | #414 of 1,600 | #36 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.4% | #1,033 of 1,045 | #72 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
229
+8 (+4%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 276
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 229 | 18.6 | 12.3:1 | 99% (226) |
| 2023-24 | 226 | 16.8 | 13.4:1 | 100% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 203 | 15.5 | 13.1:1 | 100% (203) |
| 2020-21 | 221 | 17 | 13.0:1 | 99% (218) |
| 2017-18 | 230 | 15.5 | 14.8:1 | 100% (230) |
| 2015-16 | 236 | 17 | 13.9:1 | 52% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 222 | 16 | 13.9:1 | 58% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 289 | 16 | 18.1:1 | 30% (88) |
| 1990-91 | 276 | 14 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clara Barton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (230 to 229); teachers up 20% (15.5 to 18.6).
About Clara Barton Elementary School
As a small elementary school, Clara Barton Elementary School serves students in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Enrollment stands at 229 students, covering kindergarten through 3. That is 48% below the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Clara Barton Elementary School reports to West Mifflin Area SD, which has 4 schools and 2,393 students.
At Clara Barton Elementary School, 60% of students are White. The remaining students are 14% multiracial, 12% Black, 9% Hispanic, and 5% Asian. Census figures show Allegheny County is about 76% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 59%.
Teacher count: 18.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 12.3:1. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 99%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Allegheny County is 54%.
Clara Barton Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 62% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Clara Barton Elementary School is 35.3%. It actually posts 52.8%, which is 17.5 points higher and in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Allegheny County show that the median household earns about $78,548 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across Allegheny County, 277 public schools serve about 141,392 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Steel Center for Career and Technical Education, is about 1.7 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 45.3%; Clara Barton Elementary School's is 52.8%, ranking 2nd of 5.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 229, compared with 221 in 2020-21.
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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 West Mifflin Area SD
- West Mifflin Area High SchoolHigh · 964 students
- West Mifflin Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
- Homeville Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
Other schools in West Mifflin
- West Mifflin Area High SchoolHigh · 964 students
- West Mifflin Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
- Homeville Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
Other Clara Barton Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Clara Barton Elementary. Clara Barton Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Clara Barton ElementaryEastvale, CA · 1,136 students
- Clara Barton Elementary SchoolCHERRY HILL, NJ · 494 students
- Clara Barton Elementary SchoolRedmond, WA · 452 students
- Clara Barton ElementaryBORDENTOWN, NJ · 202 students
Nearby schools
- Steel Center for Career and Technical Education1.7 mi · 3
- Pittsburgh Mifflin K-81.9 mi · 256
- Pleasant Hills Middle School2.3 mi · 813
- South Allegheny Elementary School2.4 mi · 635
- McClellan Elementary School2.7 mi · 367
- Park Elementary School2.8 mi · 340
Frequently asked questions
About Clara Barton Elementary SchoolHow large is Clara Barton Elementary School?
Clara Barton Elementary School enrolls approximately 229 students in grades KG-03.
Is Clara Barton Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Clara Barton Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-03.
How many teachers does Clara Barton Elementary School have?
Clara Barton Elementary School employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Clara Barton Elementary School?
At Clara Barton Elementary School, the student body is approximately 60% White, 9% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Clara Barton Elementary School public or private?
Clara Barton Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Mifflin Area SD.
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