Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8

Located at 220 40th Street, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 is a very small junior high that enrolls 148 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Pittsburgh SD. Enrollment runs roughly 75% below the state mean of about 594.

Pittsburgh SD comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 19,211 students; Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 shows that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 12% White, 12% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 109% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) records that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 is one campus in the mix.

Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 187 students in 2018 compared to 148 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 74% to 51%.

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