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Hampton HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hampton HS
Located at 2929 McCully Rd, in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, Hampton HS is an average-sized high school that enrolls 865 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Hampton Township SD.
Within Hampton Township SD, which oversees 5 schools and 2,567 students, Hampton HS is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, Hampton HS records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Hampton HS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hampton HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 81.9%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Allegheny County put the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Hampton HS is one.
The closest other public school is Hampton MS, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hampton HS comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 82.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 1,000 students in 2018 compared to 865 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.
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