Pittsburgh King K-8

Pittsburgh King K-8 is an elementary school of small scale in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, run under Pittsburgh SD, hosting 368 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Within Pittsburgh SD, which oversees 56 schools and 19,211 students, Pittsburgh King K-8 is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Pittsburgh King K-8 reports that nearly all students (86%) are Black. The remainder is composed of 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Pittsburgh King K-8 reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Pittsburgh King K-8 higher than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pittsburgh King K-8 falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.5%; this one comes in at 10.1%, -29.5 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Allegheny County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Pittsburgh King K-8 is one campus in the mix.

Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pittsburgh King K-8. On composite proficiency, Pittsburgh King K-8 comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pittsburgh King K-8 has declined 14%, going from 430 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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