Enrollment
387
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOX CHAPEL AREA SD·NCES 421007000149
Fairview Elementary School
738 Dorseyville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 · (412) 963-9315 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL387 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+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
13.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
30 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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 Fox Chapel Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
91.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.3pp since 2023
Math
96.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 96 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 91.7% | 96.1% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 96.5% |
% 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
95.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 96% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 74% 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 21 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 Fairview Elementary School
Fairview Elementary School's state test result (95.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview Elementary School this school | 387 | 7.8% | 95.7% |
| Gayman Elementary School Doylestown | 390 | 7.7% | 80.3% |
| Kutz Elementary School Doylestown | 436 | 8.3% | 78.4% |
| Linden Elementary School Doylestown | 353 | 10.2% | 74.5% |
| Gray's Woods Elementary School Port Matilda | 356 | 11.5% | 66.2% |
| Buckingham Elementary School Buckingham | 442 | 11.5% | 76.7% |
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 Fairview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 95.7% | #1 of 1,396 | #1 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 96.1% | #2 of 1,511 ▼ 1 | #1 of 141 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 91.7% | #2 of 1,511 ▼ 1 | #1 of 141 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 387 | #930 of 1,638 | #67 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,022 of 1,528 | #90 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.0% | #981 of 1,531 | #106 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.8% | #1,584 of 1,600 | #148 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.1% | #217 of 450 | #37 of 63 |
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
387
-10 (-3%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 311
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 387 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 8% (30) |
| 2023-24 | 371 | 27.7 | 13.4:1 | 8% (30) |
| 2022-23 | 377 | 26.7 | 14.1:1 | 9% (33) |
| 2020-21 | 397 | 29 | 13.7:1 | 8% (32) |
| 2017-18 | 358 | 30.4 | 11.8:1 | 6% (23) |
| 2015-16 | 353 | 30 | 11.8:1 | 2% (8) |
| 2010-11 | 361 | 31 | 11.7:1 | 7% (24) |
| 2000-01 | 425 | 30 | 14.2:1 | 3% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 311 | 19 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fairview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (358 to 387); teachers down 8% (30.4 to 28).
About Fairview Elementary School
Fairview Elementary School, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school counted 387 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5.
Fox Chapel Area SD is made up of 6 schools with 4,266 students in all.
Roughly 83% of students at Fairview Elementary School are White. Other groups make up 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 2% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 30%.
Its ratio of 13.8:1 is based on 28 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. In all, 8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Allegheny County average 54%.
Fairview Elementary School holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 99% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 95.7%, is 21.4 points above the 74.3% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Allegheny County show that the median household earns about $78,548 a year, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Allegheny County, 277 public schools serve about 141,392 students.
Hartwood Elementary School sits about 2.2 miles from Fairview Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Fairview Elementary School ranks 1st on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 10 students, from 397 to 387.
On allk12, people connected to Fairview Elementary School can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Fox Chapel Area SD
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Dorseyville Middle SchoolMiddle · 981 students
- OHara Elementary SchoolElementary · 726 students
- Kerr Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
- Hartwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 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 Fairview Elementary schools
62 other US public schools in 28 states are named Fairview Elementary. Fairview Elementary School is the 37th largest of the 63.
- Fairview Elementary SchoolFairview, PA · 707 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolMountaintop, PA · 612 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolWaynesboro, PA · 597 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolMidland, PA · 303 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolNew Cumberland, PA · 238 students
Nearby schools
- Hartwood Elementary School2.2 mi · 386
- Central Elementary School2.2 mi · 456
- Dorseyville Middle School2.2 mi · 981
- Burchfield Primary School2.3 mi · 339
- Fox Chapel Area High School2.5 mi · 1,360
- Kerr Elementary School2.5 mi · 426
Frequently asked questions
About Fairview Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Fairview Elementary School?
Fairview Elementary School enrolls approximately 387 students in grades KG-05.
Is Fairview Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Fairview Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Fairview Elementary School have?
Fairview Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Fairview Elementary School?
Student demographics at Fairview Elementary School are roughly 83% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Fairview Elementary School public or private?
Fairview Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fox Chapel Area SD.
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