Marshall MS

Marshall MS, a medium-sized junior high in Wexford, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within North Allegheny SD, teaches 847 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 43% larger than the state mean of about 594.

North Allegheny SD comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 8,552 students; Marshall MS is among them.

Looking at the student body, Marshall MS shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 35% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 6% of students at Marshall MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Marshall MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.9%; this one delivers 74.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Marshall MS is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Marshall El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Marshall MS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 80.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 3%: 819 students in 2018 compared to 847 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 73% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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