Francis McClure El Sch

Francis McClure El Sch operates as a heavily attended K-5 school in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within McKeesport Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 668 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 51% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Francis McClure El Sch is one of 4 schools operated by McKeesport Area SD, a district that educates 2,883 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Francis McClure El Sch logs that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% White, 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Francis McClure El Sch has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 104% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Francis McClure El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Allegheny County put median household earnings sit near $78,548, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Francis McClure El Sch is one campus in the mix.

McKeesport Area SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Francis McClure El Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.8%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Francis McClure El Sch's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 706 (now 668). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 49% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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