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Enrollment
539
High
DISTRICT 382 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KEYSTONE OAKS SD·NCES 421275005112
Keystone Oaks High School
1000 Kelton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15216 · (412) 571-6040 · Allegheny County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL539 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Pennsylvania public high 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.
- ·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 high schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
285 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 126 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 140 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 138 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 135 | 25% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Keystone Oaks SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
78.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.4pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.1% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.5% | 53.0% |
% 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
64.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Keystone Oaks High School
Keystone Oaks High School's state test result (64.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keystone Oaks High School this school | 539 | 52.9% | 64.9% |
| Brentwood SHS Pittsburgh | 331 | 60.4% | 47.6% |
| Shippensburg Area SHS Shippensburg | 1,097 | 54.9% | 53.6% |
| Pen Argyl Area High School Pen Argyl | 475 | 48.6% | 50.5% |
| Old Forge JSHS Old Forge | 434 | 47.7% | 40.6% |
| Annville-Cleona High School Annville | 464 | 41.8% | 48.5% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Keystone Oaks High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #109 of 576 | #17 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #136 of 626 ▲ 2 | #19 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.1% | #83 of 626 ▲ 2 | #12 of 53 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 539 | #384 of 713 | #38 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #206 of 601 | #20 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.2% | #192 of 604 | #25 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.9% | #324 of 619 | #30 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #253 of 373 | #21 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high 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
539
-68 (-11%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 749
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 539 | 41.8 | 12.9:1 | 53% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 577 | 42.6 | 13.5:1 | 49% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 570 | 43.1 | 13.2:1 | 35% (198) |
| 2020-21 | 607 | 42 | 14.4:1 | 33% (199) |
| 2017-18 | 575 | 43.5 | 13.2:1 | 23% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 620 | 41 | 15.1:1 | 40% (251) |
| 2010-11 | 715 | 46 | 15.5:1 | 26% (184) |
| 2000-01 | 943 | 63 | 15.0:1 | 16% (147) |
| 1990-91 | 749 | 51 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Keystone Oaks High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (575 to 539); teachers down 4% (43.5 to 41.8).
About Keystone Oaks High School
Federal records list Keystone Oaks High School as a high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It offers grades 9 through 12 and has 539 students enrolled. It has 27% fewer students than the average for high schools in Pennsylvania (about 738).
Keystone Oaks SD is the local district for Keystone Oaks High School. It runs 5 schools with 1,911 students.
The largest group at Keystone Oaks High School is White students, at 73%. The remaining students are 8% Black, 8% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Allegheny County residents are about 76% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Keystone Oaks High School scores 44%.
On staff are 41.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.9:1. That is in line with the 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania. Keystone Oaks High School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 53%. The average for public schools in Allegheny County is similar, at 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Keystone Oaks High School lands at A, ahead of 87% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Keystone Oaks High School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 64.9%; the prediction is 54.9%.
Looking at the 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 share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The county's public schools total 277, with about 141,392 students.
Keystone Oaks Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile from Keystone Oaks High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Keystone Oaks High School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 64.9% average proficiency ranks 6th among 8 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 539, compared with 607 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 14.4:1 to 12.9:1.
People who know Keystone Oaks High School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Keystone Oaks SD
- Keystone Oaks Middle SchoolMiddle · 442 students
- Dormont Elementary SchoolElementary · 380 students
- Myrtle Ave SchoolElementary · 312 students
- Fred L Aiken Elementary SchoolElementary · 238 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
Nearby schools
- Keystone Oaks Middle School0.1 mi · 442
- Pittsburgh Brookline K-80.6 mi · 384
- Howe Elementary School0.8 mi · 398
- Dormont Elementary School0.9 mi · 380
- Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS1.0 mi · 297
- Lincoln Elementary School1.0 mi · 414
Frequently asked questions
About Keystone Oaks High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Keystone Oaks High School?
Keystone Oaks High School enrolls approximately 539 students in grades 09-12.
Is Keystone Oaks High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Keystone Oaks High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Keystone Oaks High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Keystone Oaks High School is approximately 12.9:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Keystone Oaks High School?
At Keystone Oaks High School, the student body is approximately 73% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Keystone Oaks High School public or private?
Keystone Oaks High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Keystone Oaks SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.