Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5

Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 is an intimate primary school, run under Pittsburgh SD. It works with 331 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 56 schools in Pittsburgh SD (19,211 students total), Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 lists that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 24% Hispanic, 13% White, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 tighter than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of -8.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Allegheny County put 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%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 is one campus in the mix.

Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5 at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 48.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Pittsburgh Arsenal K-5's enrollment has rose 24% since 2018, when it stood at 266 (now 331). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 71% to 50%. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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