Enrollment
296
Elementary
DISTRICT 305 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PITTSBURGH SD·NCES 421917000363
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5
6502 Lilac St, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 · (412) 529-4035 · Allegheny County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL296 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
296 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 43 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 35% larger than its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
45.1%
PA avg 51.1% . +7.2pp since 2023
Math
36.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +15.5pp since 2023
What 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.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.1% | 36.9% |
| 2023-24 | 37.9% | 21.4% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5's state test result (37.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 this school | 296 | 100.0% | 37.5% |
| Powel Samuel School Philadelphia | 324 | 95.1% | 67.4% |
| Pittsburgh Sunnyside K-8 Pittsburgh | 248 | 96.8% | 32.2% |
| Sto-Rox Primary Center McKees Rocks | 317 | 95.0% | 18.4% |
| Mifflin Thomas School Philadelphia | 393 | 98.5% | 37.9% |
| Musser Elementary School Sharon | 324 | 97.5% | 30.4% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #1,096 of 1,396 | #94 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #1,047 of 1,511 ▲ 194 | #91 of 141 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #883 of 1,511 ▲ 265 | #89 of 141 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 296 | #1,265 of 1,638 | #112 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #217 of 1,528 | #23 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.6% | #261 of 1,531 | #24 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #304 of 1,600 | #31 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.2% | #324 of 450 | #46 of 63 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
296
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 10.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 296 | 26.7 | 11.1:1 | 100% (296) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 26 | 11.9:1 | 96% (296) |
| 2022-23 | 293 | 29.2 | 10.0:1 | 95% (279) |
| 2020-21 | 298 | 29 | 10.3:1 | 95% (282) |
| 2017-18 | 284 | 29.2 | 9.7:1 | 77% (220) |
| 2015-16 | 386 | 30 | 12.9:1 | 54% (208) |
| 2010-11 | 638 | 34 | 18.8:1 | 54% (343) |
| 2000-01 | 572 | 31 | 18.4:1 | 40% (228) |
| 1990-91 | 577 | 24 | 24.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (284 to 296); teachers down 9% (29.2 to 26.7).
About Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is a small elementary school based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It has an enrollment of 296 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 33% below average.
Across its 56 schools, Pittsburgh SD enrolls 19,211 students. Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is one of those schools.
The share of Black students at Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is 55%, a majority. Smaller groups are 22% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 6% Asian. For comparison, the population of Allegheny County is roughly 13% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 63%.
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 has 26.7 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1. At Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 46 points above the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County.
On the allk12 Grade, Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 lands at C, ahead of 33% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5, the prediction is 34.7% and the result is 37.5%.
The county, Allegheny County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $78,548 a year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5, Allegheny County has 277 public schools.
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5's nearest public school is Pittsburgh Allderdice High School (about 0.5 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is 4th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 298 to 296, a small change.
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Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5How many students attend Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5?
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 enrolls approximately 296 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 serve?
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is approximately 11.1:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5?
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 reports a student body of 22% White, 7% Hispanic, 55% Black, 6% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5?
Pittsburgh Minadeo K-5 is overseen by Pittsburgh SD in Allegheny County.
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