Markham El Sch

Markham El Sch is a K-5 school of compact scale in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, overseen by Mt Lebanon SD, enrolling 296 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Mt Lebanon SD runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,477 students. Markham El Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Markham El Sch reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Markham El Sch reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Markham El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.1%, the actual is 83.6%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Allegheny County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Markham El Sch is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mt Lebanon SHS, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Markham El Sch at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 80.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 326 students in 2018 compared to 296 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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