Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MT LEBANON SD·NCES 421611000250
Jefferson Elementary School
11 Moffett St, Pittsburgh, PA 15243 · (412) 344-2167 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% 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.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
13.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
41 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 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
29%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
84.7%
PA avg 51.1% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
88.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.7% | 88.3% |
| 2023-24 | 78.8% | 76.3% |
% 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
83.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (83.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Elementary School this school | 310 | 13.2% | 83.7% |
| Hosack Elementary School Allison Park | 348 | 11.2% | 91.7% |
| Ingomar Elementary School Pittsburgh | 344 | 8.7% | 83.7% |
| George Washington Elementary School Bethel Park | 313 | 9.3% | 78.7% |
| Foster Elementary School Pittsburgh | 304 | 12.2% | 81.5% |
| South Abington School Chinchilla | 301 | 7.3% | 69.0% |
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 Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.7% | #55 of 1,396 | #21 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.3% | #22 of 1,511 ▲ 116 | #14 of 141 ▲ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.7% | #27 of 1,511 ▲ 111 | #13 of 141 ▲ 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #1,214 of 1,638 | #106 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #889 of 1,528 | #75 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.8% | #1,009 of 1,531 | #108 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.2% | #1,527 of 1,600 | #134 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.3% | #995 of 1,045 | #67 of 73 |
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
310
+27 (+10%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 337
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 310 | 23.1 | 13.4:1 | 13% (41) |
| 2023-24 | 317 | 21.9 | 14.5:1 | 13% (41) |
| 2022-23 | 314 | 20.9 | 15.0:1 | 10% (31) |
| 2020-21 | 283 | 20 | 14.2:1 | 6% (17) |
| 2017-18 | 314 | 20.5 | 15.3:1 | 6% (18) |
| 2015-16 | 333 | 24 | 13.9:1 | 5% (15) |
| 2010-11 | 298 | 21 | 14.2:1 | 5% (15) |
| 2000-01 | 292 | 18 | 16.2:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 337 | 21 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (314 to 310); teachers up 13% (20.5 to 23.1).
About Jefferson Elementary School
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jefferson Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. It enrolls 310 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 30% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
In Mt Lebanon SD, 10 schools enroll a combined 5,477 students.
Of every 100 students at Jefferson Elementary School, about 84 are White. After that, the student body is 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 29, compared with 70 nationally.
The school had 23.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 13.4:1. That is in line with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The school reported 13% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Among public schools in Allegheny County, the average eligibility rate is 54%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Jefferson Elementary School outscored 93%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Jefferson Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools: 83.7% actual against 71.9% predicted.
Census data for Allegheny County show the median household earns about $78,548 a year, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Jefferson Elementary School, Allegheny County has 277 public schools.
Jefferson Middle School is the nearest public school to Jefferson Elementary School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Jefferson Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 83.7% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 9 nearby schools.
For locale, NCES codes Jefferson Elementary School as Suburb: Large.
From 283 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 310 by 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
- Howe Elementary SchoolElementary · 398 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 Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson Elementary School is the 100th largest of the 144.
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolAllentown, PA · 522 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolErie, PA · 447 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolEmmaus, PA · 268 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolLake Ariel, PA · 239 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolJefferson, GA · 1,011 students
Nearby schools
- Jefferson Middle School0.1 mi · 621
- Hoover Elementary School0.7 mi · 285
- Mt Lebanon SHS0.7 mi · 1,772
- Lincoln Elementary School0.8 mi · 414
- Washington Elementary School0.8 mi · 416
- Mellon Middle School0.8 mi · 661
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 310 students in grades KG-05.
Is Jefferson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jefferson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jefferson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jefferson Elementary School is approximately 13.4:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Jefferson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Jefferson Elementary School are roughly 84% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School is overseen by Mt Lebanon SD in Allegheny County.
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