Elizabeth Forward MS

Located at 401 Rock Run Road, in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Forward MS is a medium-sized intermediate school that enrolls 538 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Elizabeth Forward SD.

Elizabeth Forward MS is one of 6 schools operated by Elizabeth Forward SD, a district that serves 2,293 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Elizabeth Forward MS reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Elizabeth Forward MS logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 41% 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Elizabeth Forward MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Around the school, Allegheny County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Elizabeth Forward MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Central El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Elizabeth Forward MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elizabeth Forward MS at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 46.6%.

Elizabeth Forward MS operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Elizabeth Forward MS's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 540 (now 538). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 94% to 89%.

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