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Enrollment
1,449
High
DISTRICT 759 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINE-RICHLAND SD·NCES 420285000315
Pine-Richland High School
700 Warrendale Rd, Gibsonia, PA 15044 · (724) 625-4444 · Allegheny County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,449 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Pennsylvania public high 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
102 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
141 students
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 356 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 366 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 348 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 379 | 26% |
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pine-Richland SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
89.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
80.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.7% | 80.4% |
| 2023-24 | 94.8% | 76.6% |
% 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
85.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.2pp
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 Pine-Richland High School
Pine-Richland High School's state test result (85.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine-Richland High School this school | 1,449 | 9.7% | 85.6% |
| Central Bucks HS-East Doylestown | 1,374 | 9.5% | 80.7% |
| Central Bucks HS-West Doylestown | 1,391 | 16.8% | 73.3% |
| Council Rock HS South Holland | 1,921 | 17.6% | 73.6% |
| Peters Twp High School McMurray | 1,267 | 11.1% | 84.6% |
| Mt Lebanon SHS Pittsburgh | 1,772 | 18.7% | 86.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Pine-Richland High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.6% | #8 of 576 | #3 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.4% | #14 of 626 ▲ 2 | #3 of 53 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.7% | #18 of 626 ▼ 13 | #5 of 53 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,449 | #79 of 713 | #4 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #340 of 601 | #33 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.8% | #327 of 604 | #40 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.7% | #613 of 619 | #52 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #254 of 373 | #22 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,449
+21 (+1%) vs 2020
+183% since 1990-91, when it was 512
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 1,449 | 101.7 | 14.3:1 | 10% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 1,432 | 101.7 | 14.1:1 | 10% (141) |
| 2022-23 | 1,413 | 105.2 | 13.4:1 | 7% (98) |
| 2020-21 | 1,428 | 102 | 14.0:1 | 5% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 1,545 | 103.4 | 14.9:1 | 8% (118) |
| 2015-16 | 1,538 | 101 | 15.2:1 | 8% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 1,500 | 102 | 14.7:1 | 5% (80) |
| 2000-01 | 1,131 | 79 | 14.3:1 | 3% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 512 | 40 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pine-Richland High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (1,545 to 1,449); teachers down 2% (103.4 to 101.7).
About Pine-Richland High School
This page covers Pine-Richland High School, a large high school in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. It teaches 1,449 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 738 students on average.
Pine-Richland SD has a total of 6 schools and 4,553 students, Pine-Richland High School among them.
White students are 85% of those enrolled at Pine-Richland High School. The rest of enrollment is 7% Asian, 3% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Allegheny County's population at about 76%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 27%.
A staff of 101.7 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 14.3:1. The average for high schools in Pennsylvania, 12.8:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 10%. The average for public schools in Allegheny County is 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Pine-Richland High School lands at A+, ahead of 96% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Pine-Richland High School is +12.2 points: 85.6% actual, 73.4% predicted.
In Allegheny County, home to about 1,238,177 people, median household income comes to about $78,548, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 277 public schools in the county, enrolling about 141,392, Pine-Richland High School among them.
About 0.2 miles separate Pine-Richland High School from the closest public school, Pine-Richland Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Pine-Richland High School is 1st of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Federal data place Pine-Richland High School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 1,428 in 2020-21, 1,449 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Pine-Richland SD
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 1,076 students
- Pine-Richland Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Wexford Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Hance Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
Other schools in Gibsonia
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 1,076 students
- Pine-Richland Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Hance Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
- Poff Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
Nearby schools
- Pine-Richland Middle School0.2 mi · 703
- Mars Area Primary Center3.0 mi · 506
- Mars Area SHS3.0 mi · 1,044
- Wexford Elementary School3.0 mi · 449
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary School3.1 mi · 1,076
- Mars Area Elementary School3.1 mi · 880
Frequently asked questions
About Pine-Richland High SchoolHow large is Pine-Richland High School?
Pine-Richland High School enrolls approximately 1,449 students in grades 09-12.
Is Pine-Richland High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pine-Richland High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pine-Richland High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pine-Richland High School is approximately 14.3:1 (102 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pine-Richland High School?
At Pine-Richland High School, the student body is approximately 85% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 7% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Pine-Richland High School public or private?
Pine-Richland High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pine-Richland SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.