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Enrollment
726
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOX CHAPEL AREA SD·NCES 421007000461
OHara Elementary School
115 Cabin Lane, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 · (412) 963-0333 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL726 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- ABeats 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
13.4:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
100 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 121 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 130 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 132 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
Based on grade levels within Fox Chapel Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
85.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.7pp since 2023
Math
87.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.9% | 87.8% |
| 2023-24 | 88.6% | 87.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
88.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 72% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 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 OHara Elementary School
OHara Elementary School's state test result (88.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OHara Elementary School this school | 726 | 13.8% | 88.3% |
| Scenic Hills Elementary School Springfield | 675 | 17.0% | 84.0% |
| Bower Hill Elementary School Venetia | 689 | 13.2% | 92.1% |
| Chatham Park Elementary School Havertown | 582 | 15.6% | 83.4% |
| Mars Area Elementary School Mars | 880 | 13.2% | 75.2% |
| McMurray Elementary School McMurray | 608 | 12.2% | 86.3% |
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 OHara Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.3% | #18 of 1,396 | #12 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.8% | #29 of 1,511 ▼ 10 | #17 of 141 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.9% | #20 of 1,511 ▲ 2 | #10 of 141 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 726 | #120 of 1,638 | #14 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #881 of 1,528 | #74 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.8% | #887 of 1,531 | #92 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.8% | #1,523 of 1,600 | #133 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.4% | #207 of 450 | #34 of 63 |
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
726
+55 (+8%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 699
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 726 | 54.2 | 13.4:1 | 14% (100) |
| 2023-24 | 719 | 52.3 | 13.7:1 | 14% (100) |
| 2022-23 | 679 | 52.4 | 13.0:1 | 14% (98) |
| 2020-21 | 671 | 51 | 13.2:1 | 14% (95) |
| 2017-18 | 670 | 52.3 | 12.8:1 | 15% (100) |
| 2015-16 | 703 | 55 | 12.8:1 | 10% (69) |
| 2010-11 | 709 | 54 | 13.1:1 | 9% (67) |
| 2000-01 | 697 | 51 | 13.7:1 | 5% (33) |
| 1990-91 | 699 | 48 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OHara Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (670 to 726); teachers up 4% (52.3 to 54.2).
About OHara Elementary School
OHara Elementary School sits in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is classified as an elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 726 students. The average among elementary schools in Pennsylvania is roughly 443 students; this school is 64% bigger than that.
Fox Chapel Area SD runs OHara Elementary School along with 5 other schools, enrolling 4,266 students in total.
OHara Elementary School is 80% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 9% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 4% Hispanic. The county population is about 76% White, within a few points of the school. The school's diversity index is 35%, meaning two students picked at random have a 35% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Staffing totals 54.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.4:1. That matches the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania fairly closely. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 14%. Among public schools in Allegheny County, the average eligibility rate is 54%.
allk12 grades OHara Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, OHara Elementary School is in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools: 88.3% actual against 71.7% predicted.
Census Bureau estimates for Allegheny County show that the median household income is $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. OHara Elementary School is one of 277 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, Fox Chapel Area High School, is about 0.4 miles from OHara Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, OHara Elementary School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Federal data show an 8% enrollment rise, from 671 in 2020-21 to 726 in 2024-25.
Discussions about OHara Elementary School may include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 Fox Chapel Area SD
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Dorseyville Middle SchoolMiddle · 981 students
- Kerr Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 387 students
- Hartwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
Other schools in Pittsburgh
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Baldwin SHSHigh · 1,657 students
- North Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Pittsburgh Allderdice High SchoolHigh · 1,386 students
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Upper Saint Clair High SchoolHigh · 1,269 students
Nearby schools
- Fox Chapel Area High School0.4 mi · 1,360
- Riverview JSHS1.3 mi · 441
- Verner Elementary School1.4 mi · 160
- Tenth Street Elementary School1.7 mi · 393
- Fairview Elementary School2.9 mi · 387
- Kerr Elementary School2.9 mi · 426
Frequently asked questions
About OHara Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at OHara Elementary School?
OHara Elementary School enrolls approximately 726 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does OHara Elementary School serve?
OHara Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at OHara Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at OHara Elementary School is approximately 13.4:1 (54 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at OHara Elementary School?
At OHara Elementary School, the student body is approximately 80% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is OHara Elementary School public or private?
OHara Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fox Chapel Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.