Enrollment
229
Elementary
DISTRICT 326 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOON AREA SD·NCES 421583006743
McCormick Elementary School
2801 Beaver Grade Rd, Moon Township, PA 15108 · (412) 264-9440 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL229 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 95% of Pennsylvania public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
24 students
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 45 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 15% larger than its 4th grade class (39).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
McCormick Elementary School→Moon Area Lower Middle School→Moon Area Upper Middle School→Moon Area SHS
Based on grade levels within Moon Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
77.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -8.8pp since 2023
Math
89.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.8pp 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 90 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.9% | 89.5% |
| 2023-24 | 86.7% | 86.7% |
% 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
86.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 McCormick Elementary School
McCormick Elementary School's state test result (86.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| McCormick Elementary School this school | 229 | 10.5% | 86.5% |
| Corl Street Elementary School State College | 250 | 18.0% | 75.3% |
| Ferguson Twp Elementary School Pine Grove Mills | 287 | 15.3% | 80.8% |
| Hoover Elementary School Pittsburgh | 285 | 18.6% | 84.2% |
| Chadds Ford Elementary School Chadds Ford | 328 | 14.0% | 81.9% |
| Hillendale Elementary School Chadds Ford | 346 | 10.4% | 86.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary 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 McCormick Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.5% | #25 of 1,396 | #14 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 89.5% | #18 of 1,511 ▲ 2 | #11 of 141 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.9% | #93 of 1,511 ▼ 60 | #27 of 141 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 229 | #1,462 of 1,638 | #132 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #1,478 of 1,528 | #134 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.7% | #629 of 1,531 | #66 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.5% | #1,559 of 1,600 | #140 of 152 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
229
+39 (+21%) vs 2020
+17% since 2010-11, when it was 196
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 229 | 13.2 | 17.3:1 | 10% (24) |
| 2023-24 | 208 | 14 | 14.8:1 | 12% (24) |
| 2022-23 | 184 | 13.4 | 13.7:1 | 6% (11) |
| 2020-21 | 190 | 13 | 14.6:1 | 8% (16) |
| 2017-18 | 191 | 15.9 | 12.0:1 | 10% (19) |
| 2015-16 | 286 | 23 | 12.4:1 | 25% (71) |
| 2010-11 | 196 | 16 | 12.3:1 | 9% (18) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for McCormick Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 20% (191 to 229); teachers down 17% (15.9 to 13.2).
About McCormick Elementary School
McCormick Elementary School, a small elementary school, is located in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The school has 229 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 4. By comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 443 students on average.
McCormick Elementary School reports to Moon Area SD, which has 8 schools and 4,100 students.
At McCormick Elementary School, 72% of students are White. It is also 16% Asian, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The diversity index for McCormick Elementary School is 46%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
McCormick Elementary School reported 13.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 17.3:1. The school's 17.3:1 compares with an average of 13.1:1 for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Roughly 10% of students at McCormick Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County is 44 points.
McCormick Elementary School earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 95% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
McCormick Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 86.5% and a predicted 73.1%.
For the population of Allegheny County, median household income comes to 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. Allegheny County's 277 public schools enroll about 141,392 students and include McCormick Elementary School.
J H Brooks Elementary School is about 1.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 60.8%; McCormick Elementary School's is 86.5%, ranking 1st of 8.
McCormick Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 21%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.6:1 in 2020-21, and 17.3:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for McCormick Elementary School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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 Moon Area SD
- Moon Area SHSHigh · 1,211 students
- Moon Area Lower Middle SchoolMiddle · 639 students
- Moon Area Upper Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Bon Meade Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- J H Brooks Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Richard J. Hyde Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
Other schools in Moon Township
- Moon Area SHSHigh · 1,211 students
- Moon Area Lower Middle SchoolMiddle · 639 students
- Moon Area Upper Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Bon Meade Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- J H Brooks Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- Richard J. Hyde Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
Other McCormick Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named McCormick Elementary. McCormick Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 8.
- McCormick Elementary SchoolLoveland, OH · 587 students
- McCormick Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 502 students
- MCCORMICK ELEMENTARYFARMINGTON, NM · 426 students
- McCormick ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 295 students
- McCormick ElementaryMullins, SC · 295 students
Nearby schools
- J H Brooks Elementary School1.5 mi · 382
- Cornell Elementary School2.1 mi · 289
- Cornell High School2.1 mi · 252
- Parkway West Career and Technology Center2.5 mi · 14
- Montour Elementary School2.9 mi · 1,276
- Montour High School3.0 mi · 1,004
Frequently asked questions
About McCormick Elementary SchoolHow large is McCormick Elementary School?
McCormick Elementary School enrolls approximately 229 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does McCormick Elementary School serve?
McCormick Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at McCormick Elementary School?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at McCormick Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at McCormick Elementary School?
Student demographics at McCormick Elementary School are roughly 72% White, 4% Hispanic, 5% Black, 16% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is McCormick Elementary School in?
McCormick Elementary School is part of Moon Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.