Mellon MS

As a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mellon MS works with 661 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Mt Lebanon SD.

Mt Lebanon SD comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,477 students; Mellon MS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mellon MS records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black.

On the resource side, Mellon MS lists 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Mellon MS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mellon MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.7%, the actual is 76.3%, a residual of +4.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) records 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%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Mellon MS is one.

Washington El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mellon MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mellon MS at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 78.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 659 students in 2018 compared to 661 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 87% to 82% over that span.

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