Pittsburgh Arlington K-8

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Arlington K-8 educates 385 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Pittsburgh SD.

Pittsburgh Arlington K-8 is one of 56 schools operated by Pittsburgh SD, a district that works with 19,211 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Pittsburgh Arlington K-8 reports that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% White, 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 96% 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pittsburgh Arlington K-8 falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.4%; this one comes in at 8.6%, -27.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) logs that median household income runs about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Pittsburgh Arlington K-8 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: The New Academy CS, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pittsburgh Arlington K-8 ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.0%.

Pittsburgh Arlington K-8 operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 368 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.