Pittsburgh Banksville K-5

As an intimate elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 hosts 322 students from grades K through 5, part of Pittsburgh SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Pittsburgh SD, which oversees 56 schools and 19,211 students, Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 lists that the largest single group is Asian at 33%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 28% White, 21% Hispanic, 16% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 4% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the broader community, Allegheny County reports that median household income runs about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Dormont El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Pittsburgh Banksville K-5's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 322). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 44% to 28% over that span.

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