Dickson Prep STEAM Academy

Dickson Prep STEAM Academy operates as a mid-sized middle-grades school in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, run under Woodland Hills SD. Current enrollment sits at 579 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Across the 5 schools in Woodland Hills SD (3,128 students total), Dickson Prep STEAM Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Dickson Prep STEAM Academy logs that Black students make up the majority at 63%; the rest breaks down as 19% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Dickson Prep STEAM Academy is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.2%; Dickson Prep STEAM Academy posts 19.9%, -23.2 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Allegheny County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Dickson Prep STEAM Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Edgewood El STEAM Academy, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dickson Prep STEAM Academy. On composite proficiency, Dickson Prep STEAM Academy comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

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