J.E. Harrison MS

J.E. Harrison MS operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, operated by Baldwin-Whitehall SD. Current enrollment sits at 716 students spanning grades 6 through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 594.

Within Baldwin-Whitehall SD, which oversees 5 schools and 4,456 students, J.E. Harrison MS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, J.E. Harrison MS shows that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 25% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), J.E. Harrison MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +16.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Allegheny County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which J.E. Harrison MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Whitehall El Sch, around 0.3 miles off. 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), J.E. Harrison MS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at J.E. Harrison MS has declined 27%, going from 979 students in 2018 to 716 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 78% to 60%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for J.E. Harrison MS typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.