Enrollment
398
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MT LEBANON SD·NCES 421611000248
Howe Elementary School
400 Broadmoor Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15228 · (412) 344-2157 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL398 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
14.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
68 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 51% larger than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
76.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.3pp since 2023
Math
76.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.7% | 76.1% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 76.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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%.
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 Howe Elementary School
Howe Elementary School's state test result (80.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howe Elementary School this school | 398 | 17.1% | 80.6% |
| Penn Wood Elementary School West Chester | 438 | 18.7% | 70.7% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Pittsburgh | 414 | 20.5% | 81.3% |
| Park Forest Elementary School State College | 419 | 18.6% | 75.3% |
| Salford Hills Elementary School Harleysville | 449 | 16.0% | 78.2% |
| Holland Elementary School Holland | 425 | 15.1% | 70.3% |
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 Howe Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.6% | #96 of 1,396 | #35 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.1% | #165 of 1,511 ▼ 37 | #43 of 141 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.7% | #102 of 1,511 ▼ 6 | #29 of 141 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 398 | #892 of 1,638 | #61 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,238 of 1,528 | #113 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.0% | #885 of 1,531 | #91 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.1% | #1,481 of 1,600 | #125 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.8% | #158 of 450 | #26 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
398
+48 (+14%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 458
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 398 | 26.7 | 14.9:1 | 17% (68) |
| 2023-24 | 375 | 24.7 | 15.2:1 | 18% (68) |
| 2022-23 | 369 | 24.7 | 14.9:1 | 15% (56) |
| 2020-21 | 350 | 25 | 14.0:1 | 13% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 356 | 25.5 | 14.0:1 | 15% (54) |
| 2015-16 | 357 | 26 | 13.7:1 | 10% (34) |
| 2010-11 | 352 | 25 | 14.1:1 | 6% (20) |
| 2000-01 | 433 | 25 | 17.3:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 458 | 31 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Howe Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (356 to 398); teachers up 5% (25.5 to 26.7).
About Howe Elementary School
Howe Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its enrollment is 398 students, spread over kindergarten through 5.
A total of 10 schools make up Mt Lebanon SD, with 5,477 students enrolled.
More than half of the students at Howe Elementary School are White (80%). Next come 8% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Black, and 3% Hispanic. That is in line with Allegheny County, where about 76% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 35%.
Howe Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1, with 26.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 17% at Howe Elementary School. For comparison, public schools in Allegheny County average 54%.
Howe Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 89% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 70.3% for Howe Elementary School. The school posts 80.6%, 10.3 points above the prediction.
In the surrounding county, Allegheny County, the median household earns about $78,548 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Howe Elementary School, Allegheny County has 277 public schools.
Howe Elementary School's nearest public school is Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS (about 0.6 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Howe Elementary School. By average proficiency, Howe Elementary School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment rose by 14% across 4 years, from 350 in 2020-21 to 398 in 2024-25.
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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 Mt Lebanon SD
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Mellon Middle SchoolMiddle · 661 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 416 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 310 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 Howe Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 8 states are named Howe Elementary. Howe Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 10.
- Howe Elementary SchoolHowe, OK · 447 students
- HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSCHENECTADY, NY · 390 students
- Howe ElementaryGreen Bay, WI · 350 students
- Howe Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 341 students
- Howe ElementaryWisconsin Rapids, WI · 336 students
Nearby schools
- Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS0.6 mi · 297
- Myrtle Ave School0.6 mi · 312
- Mellon Middle School0.8 mi · 661
- Washington Elementary School0.8 mi · 416
- Keystone Oaks Middle School0.8 mi · 442
- Keystone Oaks High School0.8 mi · 539
Frequently asked questions
About Howe Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Howe Elementary School?
Howe Elementary School enrolls approximately 398 students in grades KG-05.
Is Howe Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Howe Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Howe Elementary School have?
Howe Elementary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Howe Elementary School?
At Howe Elementary School, the student body is approximately 80% White, 3% Hispanic, 4% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Howe Elementary School public or private?
Howe Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mt Lebanon SD.
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