Cornell HS

As a micro-enrollment senior high in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, Cornell HS works with 252 students from grades 7 through 12, part of Cornell SD. That puts it 66% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Cornell SD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 541 students. Cornell HS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Cornell HS logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 21% Hispanic, 19% Black, 14% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the resource side, Cornell HS shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Cornell HS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cornell HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of -12.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Allegheny County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Cornell HS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cornell El Sch, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cornell HS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 270 students in 2018 compared to 252 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 61% to 44% over that span.

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