Fred L Aiken El Sch

Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fred L Aiken El Sch is a cozy elementary school, run under Keystone Oaks SD. It educates 238 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% below the state mean of about 443.

Keystone Oaks SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,911 students; Fred L Aiken El Sch is among them.

On demographics, Fred L Aiken El Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 12% Asian, 5% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Fred L Aiken El Sch lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at Fred L Aiken El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fred L Aiken El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 78.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) records that median household income runs about $78,548, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Fred L Aiken El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pittsburgh Westwood K-5, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fred L Aiken El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 39.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fred L Aiken El Sch's enrollment has edged up 25% since 2018, when it stood at 190 (now 238). White enrollment moved from 75% to 82% across the same window.

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