Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8

Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8, a rural-scale 6-8 campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, overseen by Pittsburgh SD, enrolls 179 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 70% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 594 students.

Within Pittsburgh SD, which oversees 56 schools and 19,211 students, Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 records that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 9% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 19.3%, a residual of -16.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Allegheny County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 215 (now 179). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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