Enrollment
179
Middle
DISTRICT 235 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PITTSBURGH SD·NCES 421917000414
Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8
810 Arch Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 · (412) 529-4115 · Allegheny County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL179 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Pennsylvania public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
175 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 53 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 63 | 35% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
23.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.7pp since 2023
Math
10.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.5% | 10.1% |
| 2023-24 | 30.2% | 7.1% |
% 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
19.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8
Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8's state test result (19.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 this school | 179 | 97.8% | 19.3% |
| Amy Nw Philadelphia | 150 | 89.3% | 37.0% |
| Tilden William T Middle School Philadelphia | 266 | 98.9% | 8.4% |
| Toby Farms Intermediate School Chester Twp | 359 | 87.5% | 7.2% |
| Science Leadership Academy Middle School Philadelphia | 353 | 99.7% | 40.8% |
| Penn Wood Middle School Darby | 667 | 95.2% | 17.5% |
Matched among Pennsylvania middle 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 Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #450 of 479 | #44 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.1% | #468 of 513 ▲ 18 | #44 of 51 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #468 of 513 ▼ 10 | #46 of 51 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 179 | #495 of 522 | #49 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.8% | #112 of 510 | #15 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #83 of 332 | #9 of 27 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
179
+8 (+5%) vs 2020
-51% since 2000-01, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 179 | 15.9 | 11.2:1 | 98% (175) |
| 2023-24 | 175 | 16.2 | 10.8:1 | 100% (175) |
| 2022-23 | 156 | 15.5 | 10.1:1 | 100% (156) |
| 2020-21 | 171 | 17 | 10.1:1 | 100% (171) |
| 2017-18 | 215 | 15.6 | 13.8:1 | 84% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 211 | 14 | 15.1:1 | 87% (184) |
| 2010-11 | 379 | 29 | 13.1:1 | 83% (316) |
| 2000-01 | 366 | N/A | N/A | 69% (252) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (215 to 179); teachers up 2% (15.6 to 15.9).
About Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8
A small middle-grades school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 is part of Pittsburgh SD. School enrollment was 179 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 8. The average among middle schools in Pennsylvania is roughly 594 students; this school is 70% smaller than that.
Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 falls under Pittsburgh SD, which has 56 schools enrolling 19,211 students.
Roughly 78% of students at Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 are Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 9% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 13%. Pick two students at random and there is a 37% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8, 15.9 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.2:1. On average, middle schools in Pennsylvania have 13.2:1, compared with 11.2:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 98% of enrollment. The 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County is 44 points lower.
Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 is graded D by allk12, scoring above 11% of Pennsylvania public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 is 16.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (19.3% versus 35.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
Among Allegheny County residents, the median household income is $78,548, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Besides Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8, Allegheny County has 276 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 is 4th of 6 on proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
The school enrolled 179 students in 2024-25, 8 more than the 171 it had in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio rising from 10.1:1 to 11.2:1.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
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Frequently asked questions
About Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8How large is Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8?
Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 enrolls approximately 179 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 serve?
Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8?
At Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8, the student body is approximately 9% White, 3% Hispanic, 78% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 public or private?
Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pittsburgh SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.