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Enrollment
386
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOX CHAPEL AREA SD·NCES 421007006780
Hartwood Elementary School
3730 Saxonburg Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 · (412) 767-5396 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL386 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% 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
11.2:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
121 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
35%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
83.2%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.3pp since 2023
Math
82.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.2% | 82.2% |
| 2023-24 | 81.9% | 82.5% |
% 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
83.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% 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 19 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 Hartwood Elementary School
Hartwood Elementary School's state test result (83.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartwood Elementary School this school | 386 | 31.3% | 83.5% |
| Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence CS Scranton | 384 | 35.7% | 48.4% |
| Aston Elementary School Aston | 405 | 31.9% | 57.4% |
| Scott Primary School Glenshaw | 394 | 28.4% | 81.5% |
| Hatfield Elementary School Uniontown | 342 | 34.2% | 51.9% |
| Dormont Elementary School Pittsburgh | 380 | 33.4% | 80.1% |
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 Hartwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.5% | #59 of 1,396 | #24 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #81 of 1,511 ▼ 29 | #28 of 141 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.2% | #37 of 1,511 ▲ 61 | #15 of 141 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 386 | #932 of 1,638 | #68 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #236 of 1,528 | #25 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.7% | #889 of 1,531 | #93 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.3% | #1,311 of 1,600 | #103 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.6% | #314 of 450 | #44 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
386
+13 (+3%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 367
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 386 | 34.5 | 11.2:1 | 31% (121) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 35.1 | 11.2:1 | 31% (121) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 34.7 | 11.9:1 | 31% (127) |
| 2020-21 | 373 | 32 | 11.7:1 | 24% (90) |
| 2017-18 | 369 | 34.5 | 10.7:1 | 19% (69) |
| 2015-16 | 332 | 31 | 10.7:1 | 10% (33) |
| 2010-11 | 366 | 37 | 9.9:1 | 13% (48) |
| 2000-01 | 381 | 32 | 11.9:1 | 12% (47) |
| 1990-91 | 367 | 25 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hartwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (369 to 386); teachers unchanged (34.5 to 34.5).
About Hartwood Elementary School
Among the schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is Hartwood Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 386 students.
The Fox Chapel Area SD system has 6 schools and 4,266 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Hartwood Elementary School is White, at 80%. The school is also 9% multiracial, 4% Asian, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Among Allegheny County residents, the White share is about 76%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Hartwood Elementary School scores 35%.
For every teacher at Hartwood Elementary School, there are about 11.2 students; the school has 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 31%. For comparison, public schools in Allegheny County average 54%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Hartwood Elementary School outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 64.2% for Hartwood Elementary School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 83.5%. The 19.4-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
In the surrounding county, Allegheny County, median household income comes to about $78,548, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 277 public schools and about 141,392 students.
Dorseyville Middle School sits about 0.1 miles from Hartwood Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Hartwood Elementary School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
Locale data from NCES put Hartwood Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 386, up from 373 in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the Hartwood Elementary School community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. 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
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 387 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 Hartwood Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Hartwood Elementary. Hartwood Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Hartwood ElementaryHartwood, VA · 627 students
Nearby schools
- Dorseyville Middle School0.1 mi · 981
- Central Elementary School2.1 mi · 456
- Fairview Elementary School2.2 mi · 387
- Hampton High School2.9 mi · 865
- Hampton Middle School3.2 mi · 606
- East Union Intrmd School3.5 mi · 335
Frequently asked questions
About Hartwood Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hartwood Elementary School?
Hartwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 386 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Hartwood Elementary School serve?
Hartwood Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hartwood Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hartwood Elementary School is approximately 11.2:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Hartwood Elementary School?
Hartwood Elementary School reports a student body of 80% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Hartwood Elementary School?
Hartwood Elementary School is overseen by Fox Chapel Area SD in Allegheny County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.