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What's one thing Linton MS gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
626
Middle
DISTRICT 968 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENN HILLS SD·NCES 421859005019
Linton Middle School
250 Aster St, Pittsburgh, PA 15235 · (412) 795-3000 · Allegheny County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL626 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
103%
645 students
DISTRICT 103% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 205 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 203 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 218 | 35% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Linton Middle School→Penn Hills SHS
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Penn Hills SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
26.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.2pp since 2023
Math
8.5%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.2% | 8.5% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 10.7% |
% 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
20.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 →
Where Linton Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #447 of 479 | #42 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.5% | #475 of 513 | #47 of 51 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #459 of 513 | #44 of 51 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 626 | #218 of 522 | #20 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #184 of 486 | #20 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #143 of 486 | #13 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 103% | #45 of 510 | #7 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.3% | #17 of 332 | #2 of 27 |
Ranked against other public middle 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.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
626
-87 (-12%) vs 2020
-56% since 1990-91, when it was 1,433
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 626 | 50.8 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 645 | 48.3 | 13.3:1 | 100% (645) |
| 2022-23 | 640 | 50.3 | 12.7:1 | 100% (640) |
| 2020-21 | 713 | 43 | 16.6:1 | 100% (711) |
| 2017-18 | 967 | 69 | 14.0:1 | 74% (715) |
| 2015-16 | 1,053 | 81 | 13.0:1 | 71% (752) |
| 2010-11 | 1,333 | 111 | 12.0:1 | 61% (811) |
| 2000-01 | 2,002 | 136 | 14.7:1 | 34% (687) |
| 1990-91 | 1,433 | 91 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Linton Middle School.
About Linton Middle School
Linton Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school. Its address is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school's 626 students are in grades 6 through 8.
Penn Hills SD has a total of 3 schools and 2,903 students, Linton Middle School among them.
At 66%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Linton Middle School combined. Smaller groups are 19% White, 9% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. County-wide, 13% of Allegheny County residents are Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Linton Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 52%.
Its 50.8 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 12.3:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Pennsylvania is 13.2:1, higher than at this school.
Linton Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 20.0% and a predicted 33.4%.
Linton Middle School is located in Allegheny County, where median household income is about $78,548, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 277 public schools in Allegheny County, with a combined enrollment of about 141,392.
The nearest other public school, Penn Hills SHS, is about 1.0 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 51.4%; Linton Middle School's is 20.0%, ranking 9th of 9.
The NCES locale for Linton Middle School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Linton Middle School went from 713 students to 626. The ratio was 16.6:1 in 2020-21 and 12.3:1 in 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 Penn Hills SD
- Penn Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,228 students
- Penn Hills SHSHigh · 1,049 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
- Penn Hills SHS1.0 mi · 1,049
- Penn Hills CS of Entrepreneurship1.3 mi · 527
- Penn Hills Elementary School2.2 mi · 1,228
- Verner Elementary School2.2 mi · 160
- O'Block Elementary School2.8 mi · 512
- Tenth Street Elementary School2.9 mi · 393
Frequently asked questions
About Linton Middle SchoolHow large is Linton Middle School?
Linton Middle School enrolls approximately 626 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Linton Middle School serve?
Linton Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Linton Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Linton Middle School is approximately 12.3:1 (51 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Linton Middle School?
Student demographics at Linton Middle School are roughly 19% White, 6% Hispanic, 66% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Linton Middle School in?
Linton Middle School is part of Penn Hills SD.
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