Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, overseen by Pittsburgh SD, with 296 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 443.
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is one of 56 schools operated by Pittsburgh SD, a district that instructs 19,211 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 shows that 55% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest is composed of 22% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.7%; this one delivers 37.5%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) shows that median household earnings sit near $78,548, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).
Pittsburgh Allderdice HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 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 Minadeo K-5 at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.4%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 has increased 4%, going from 284 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 61% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.
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