Keystone Oaks MS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Keystone Oaks MS
Keystone Oaks MS operates as a low-enrollment middle school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Keystone Oaks SD. Current enrollment sits at 442 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 594.
Keystone Oaks SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,911 students; Keystone Oaks MS is among them.
Demographically, Keystone Oaks MS logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 9% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Allegheny County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, Keystone Oaks MS reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Keystone Oaks MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.0%; this one delivers 56.8%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Allegheny County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Keystone Oaks MS is one.
The closest other public school is Keystone Oaks HS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Keystone Oaks MS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.4%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Keystone Oaks MS has stayed largely flat, going from 449 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 3% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.
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