Pittsburgh Morrow K-8

Located at 1611 Davis Ave, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Morrow K-8 is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that serves 486 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Pittsburgh SD.

Pittsburgh SD comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 19,211 students; Pittsburgh Morrow K-8 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pittsburgh Morrow K-8 shows that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% multiracial, 13% White, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Pittsburgh Morrow K-8 records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 102% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pittsburgh Morrow K-8 falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.0%; this one comes in at 14.4%, -19.6 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) reports that 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%. Pittsburgh Morrow K-8 is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

The closest other public school is Bellevue El Sch, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pittsburgh Morrow K-8 comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.6%.

Pittsburgh Morrow K-8 operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Pittsburgh Morrow K-8's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 585 (now 486). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 21% to 13%.

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