Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5

Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5 is an elementary school of low-enrollment scale in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Pittsburgh SD, enrolling 360 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Pittsburgh SD comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 19,211 students; Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5 records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 24% White, 21% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 3% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5 records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.9%.

Around the school, census data for Allegheny County shows median household earnings sit near $78,548, 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 Beechwood K-5 is one campus in the mix.

Pittsburgh Brashear HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5 comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5's enrollment has edged up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 330 (now 360). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 43% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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