Enrollment
291
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARLYNTON SD·NCES 420504000078
Crafton Elementary School
1874 Crafton Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15205 · (412) 429-2500 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% 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.
- A+Beats 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
10.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
279 students
DISTRICT 98% · 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 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 35 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 46% larger than its 6th grade class (35).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
Crafton Elementary School→Carlynton JSHS
Based on grade levels within Carlynton SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
62.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -8.3pp since 2023
Math
58.3%
PA avg 43.0% . -7.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.2% | 58.3% |
| 2023-24 | 70.5% | 66.2% |
% 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
66.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+29.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 37% 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 30 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 Crafton Elementary School
Crafton Elementary School's state test result (66.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crafton Elementary School this school | 291 | 95.9% | 66.2% |
| Nicely Elementary School Greensburg | 296 | 97.6% | 62.5% |
| Penn-Lincoln Elementary School Altoona | 313 | 99.0% | 30.5% |
| Rochester Area Elementary School Rochester | 346 | 98.8% | 48.2% |
| Mowrie A Ebner Elementary School Altoona | 349 | 99.1% | 41.6% |
| Emily Brittain Elementary School Butler | 255 | 95.7% | 49.4% |
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 Crafton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #411 of 1,396 | #63 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #573 of 1,511 ▼ 254 | #71 of 141 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #370 of 1,511 ▼ 44 | #62 of 141 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #1,277 of 1,638 | #115 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #129 of 1,528 | #16 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.1% | #558 of 1,531 | #58 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.9% | #539 of 1,600 | #45 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.9% | #443 of 1,045 | #30 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
291
-28 (-9%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 480
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 291 | 28 | 10.4:1 | 96% (279) |
| 2023-24 | 279 | 26.5 | 10.5:1 | 100% (279) |
| 2022-23 | 288 | 25.5 | 11.3:1 | 100% (288) |
| 2020-21 | 319 | 26 | 12.3:1 | 34% (108) |
| 2017-18 | 342 | 25.5 | 13.4:1 | 39% (132) |
| 2015-16 | 334 | 23 | 14.5:1 | 44% (147) |
| 2010-11 | 358 | 22 | 16.3:1 | 40% (144) |
| 2000-01 | 392 | 26 | 15.1:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 480 | 23 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crafton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (342 to 291); teachers up 10% (25.5 to 28).
About Crafton Elementary School
A low-enrollment elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Crafton Elementary School is part of Carlynton SD. The school had 291 students in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Pennsylvania) has about 443 students.
District-wide, Carlynton SD has 3 schools and 1,331 students.
White students account for 69% of enrollment at Crafton Elementary School. Other groups make up 13% multiracial, 11% Black, and 6% Hispanic. Crafton Elementary School has a diversity index of 49%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 28 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 10.4:1. Among elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the typical ratio is 13.1:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 96%. That is higher than the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Crafton Elementary School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Crafton Elementary School ranks in the top 10% in Pennsylvania. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 66.2%, against a prediction of 36.5%.
Within Allegheny County, median household income is about $78,548, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Federal data list 277 public schools in Allegheny County, with a combined enrollment of about 141,392.
Nearest public school: Pittsburgh Westwood K-5, about 0.8 miles away. The five-mile area around Crafton Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Crafton Elementary School ranks 2nd of 6 nearby schools, at 66.2% versus a 50.5% average.
In the federal locale system, Crafton Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 319 in 2020-21 and 291 in 2024-25, a decrease of 28 students. Federal data show the ratio falling from 12.3:1 to 10.4:1.
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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 Carlynton SD
- Carlynton JSHSHigh · 632 students
- Carnegie Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
Other schools in Pittsburgh
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Baldwin SHSHigh · 1,657 students
- North Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Pittsburgh Allderdice High SchoolHigh · 1,386 students
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Upper Saint Clair High SchoolHigh · 1,269 students
Other Crafton Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Crafton Elementary. Crafton Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Crafton ElementaryRedlands, CA · 694 students
Nearby schools
- Pittsburgh Westwood K-50.8 mi · 278
- Fred L Aiken Elementary School1.4 mi · 238
- Pittsburgh Classical 6-81.5 mi · 245
- Carlynton JSHS1.6 mi · 632
- Pittsburgh Langley K-81.7 mi · 418
- Pittsburgh Chartiers Early Childhood Center1.9 mi · 140
Frequently asked questions
About Crafton Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Crafton Elementary School?
Crafton Elementary School enrolls approximately 291 students in grades KG-06.
Is Crafton Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Crafton Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Crafton Elementary School have?
Crafton Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
How diverse is Crafton Elementary School?
Crafton Elementary School reports a student body of 69% White, 6% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Crafton Elementary School public or private?
Crafton Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Carlynton SD.
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