OHara El Sch

Located at 115 Cabin Lane, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, OHara El Sch is an expansive K-5 school that serves 726 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Fox Chapel Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 64% above the state mean of about 443.

Fox Chapel Area SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,266 students. OHara El Sch is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OHara El Sch logs that White students make up the majority at 80%. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, OHara El Sch shows 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, OHara El Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 71.7%; OHara El Sch posts 88.3%, +16.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Allegheny County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), OHara El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fox Chapel Area HS, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OHara El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OHara El Sch at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.9%.

OHara El Sch operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OHara El Sch has expanded 8%, going from 670 students in 2018 to 726 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 12% to 6% across the same window.

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