McKeesport Area SHS

McKeesport Area SHS is a secondary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, run under McKeesport Area SD, educateing 966 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so McKeesport Area SHS sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in McKeesport Area SD (2,883 students total), McKeesport Area SHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, McKeesport Area SHS shows that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 35% White, 12% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 109% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, Allegheny County reports that 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%. McKeesport Area SHS is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Founders Hall Middle Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

McKeesport Area SHS operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McKeesport Area SHS has decreased 10%, going from 1,070 students in 2018 to 966 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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