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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOX CHAPEL AREA SD·NCES 421007000153
Kerr Elementary School
341 Kittanning Pike, Pittsburgh, PA 15215 · (412) 781-4105 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% 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.
- 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
10.4:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
156 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 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
52%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
73.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.5pp since 2023
Math
78.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 78.9% |
| 2023-24 | 79.5% | 82.9% |
% 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
80.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% 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 Kerr Elementary School
Kerr Elementary School's state test result (80.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerr Elementary School this school | 426 | 36.6% | 80.7% |
| Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence CS Scranton | 384 | 35.7% | 48.4% |
| Conewago Elementary School York | 343 | 35.3% | 58.3% |
| Amosland Elementary School Morton | 470 | 42.8% | 59.6% |
| Fishing Creek Elementary School Lewisberry | 431 | 34.8% | 62.8% |
| Schweitzer Elementary School Levittown | 407 | 43.5% | 63.5% |
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 Kerr Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.7% | #95 of 1,396 | #34 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.9% | #127 of 1,511 ▼ 79 | #39 of 141 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #163 of 1,511 ▼ 37 | #42 of 141 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #770 of 1,638 | #50 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #125 of 1,528 | #14 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.7% | #507 of 1,531 | #52 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.6% | #1,224 of 1,600 | #94 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.0% | #122 of 450 | #20 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
426
+27 (+7%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 474
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 426 | 41.1 | 10.4:1 | 37% (156) |
| 2023-24 | 434 | 41.2 | 10.5:1 | 36% (156) |
| 2022-23 | 431 | 39.2 | 11.0:1 | 100% (431) |
| 2020-21 | 399 | 37 | 10.8:1 | 99% (396) |
| 2017-18 | 364 | 40.8 | 8.9:1 | 44% (159) |
| 2015-16 | 400 | 41 | 9.8:1 | 32% (129) |
| 2010-11 | 489 | 48 | 10.2:1 | 47% (228) |
| 2000-01 | 557 | 40 | 13.9:1 | 26% (145) |
| 1990-91 | 474 | 34 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kerr Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (364 to 426); teachers up 1% (40.8 to 41.1).
About Kerr Elementary School
Kerr Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its 426 students are spread across kindergarten through 5.
Fox Chapel Area SD is made up of 6 schools with 4,266 students in all.
A majority of students at Kerr Elementary School, 67%, are White. Other reported shares: 11% multiracial, 10% Black, 6% Asian, and 5% Hispanic. Allegheny County's residents are about 76% White, 9 points above the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Kerr Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 52%.
The school has about 10.4 students per teacher and 41.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 37%. That rate is below the 54% average among public schools in Allegheny County.
The allk12 Grade for Kerr Elementary School is A+. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 97% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Kerr Elementary School is among the top 10% of schools in Pennsylvania. Predicted: 61.9%. Actual: 80.7%.
Within Allegheny County, median household income is about $78,548, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Allegheny County number 277 and enroll about 141,392.
The closest public school to Kerr Elementary School is Pittsburgh Sunnyside K-8, about 2.3 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 73.5% proficiency; Kerr Elementary School posts 80.7%.
NCES describes the area around Kerr Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 399 in 2020-21 and 426 in 2024-25, a 7% rise.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 387 students
- Hartwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 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 Kerr Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Kerr Elementary. Kerr Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Kerr Elementary SchoolALLEN, TX · 654 students
- Kerr Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 349 students
Nearby schools
- Pittsburgh Sunnyside K-82.3 mi · 248
- Marzolf Primary School2.5 mi · 337
- Fairview Elementary School2.5 mi · 387
- Pittsburgh Fulton K-52.5 mi · 267
- Shaler Area Middle School2.6 mi · 589
- Fox Chapel Area High School2.6 mi · 1,360
Frequently asked questions
About Kerr Elementary SchoolHow large is Kerr Elementary School?
Kerr Elementary School enrolls approximately 426 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Kerr Elementary School serve?
Kerr Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kerr Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kerr Elementary School is approximately 10.4:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Kerr Elementary School?
At Kerr Elementary School, the student body is approximately 67% White, 5% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Kerr Elementary School public or private?
Kerr Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fox Chapel Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.