Pittsburgh Perry HS

Pittsburgh Perry HS operates as a close-knit high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, part of Pittsburgh SD. Current enrollment sits at 430 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 42% leaner than the state mean of about 738.

Pittsburgh SD comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 19,211 students; Pittsburgh Perry HS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pittsburgh Perry HS logs that Black students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school reports 11% White, 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Pittsburgh Perry HS falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.9%; this one comes in at 14.5%, -20.5 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Allegheny County indicate median household income runs about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Pittsburgh Perry HS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pittsburgh Morrow K-8, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pittsburgh Perry HS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pittsburgh Perry HS at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pittsburgh Perry HS has showed little movement, going from 435 students in 2018 to 430 in 2025.

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