Enrollment
430
High
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PITTSBURGH SD·NCES 421917000416
Pittsburgh Perry High School
3875 Perrysville Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15214 · (412) 529-3400 · Allegheny County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL430 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 7% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
428 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 103 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 133 | 31% |
| Grade 11 | 103 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 91 | 21% |
Student demographics
42%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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
25.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.8pp since 2023
Math
11.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.3% | 11.5% |
| 2023-24 | 31.1% | 3.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
14.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Perry High School
Pittsburgh Perry High School's state test result (14.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Perry High School this school | 430 | 99.5% | 14.5% |
| Farrell Area HS/UMS Farrell | 281 | 96.4% | 13.9% |
| Saul W B Agricultural School Philadelphia | 417 | 99.3% | 30.9% |
| Randolph A. Philip Area Vocational-Technical High School Philadelphia | 437 | 99.8% | 17.6% |
| King Martin Luther High School Philadelphia | 527 | 100.0% | 8.5% |
| Sayre William L Middle School Philadelphia | 447 | 94.9% | 13.5% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Perry High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #547 of 576 | #43 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.5% | #552 of 626 ▲ 43 | #45 of 53 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #580 of 626 ▼ 14 | #49 of 53 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 430 | #460 of 713 | #43 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #36 of 601 | #5 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.4% | #206 of 604 | #27 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #127 of 619 | #15 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.1% | #353 of 373 | #27 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high 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
430
+67 (+18%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 812
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 430 | 41.5 | 10.4:1 | 100% (428) |
| 2023-24 | 428 | 35.5 | 12.1:1 | 100% (428) |
| 2022-23 | 353 | 36.4 | 9.7:1 | 100% (352) |
| 2020-21 | 363 | 39 | 9.3:1 | 100% (363) |
| 2017-18 | 435 | 40.1 | 10.8:1 | 81% (352) |
| 2015-16 | 470 | 40 | 11.8:1 | 85% (400) |
| 2010-11 | 672 | 54 | 12.4:1 | 60% (403) |
| 2000-01 | 1,066 | 67 | 15.9:1 | 40% (426) |
| 1990-91 | 812 | 52 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pittsburgh Perry High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (435 to 430); teachers up 4% (40.1 to 41.5).
About Pittsburgh Perry High School
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is home to Pittsburgh Perry High School, a small high school. A federal count lists 430 students at the school, in grades 9 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in Pennsylvania) has about 738 students.
Pittsburgh SD has 56 schools; together they serve 19,211 students.
At 74%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Pittsburgh Perry High School combined. It is also 11% White, 9% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Allegheny County's residents are about 13% Black, 62 points below the school's share. By the diversity index, Pittsburgh Perry High School comes in at 42%.
Dividing enrollment by its 41.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 10.4:1. Among high schools in Pennsylvania, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. Eligible students account for 100% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. That rate is above the 54% average among public schools in Allegheny County.
Pittsburgh Perry High School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 7% of Pennsylvania public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 14.5%, is 20.5 points below the 34.9% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
Allegheny County has about 1,238,177 residents, and median household income is about $78,548, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Federal data list 277 public schools in Allegheny County, with a combined enrollment of about 141,392.
The nearest other public school, Pittsburgh Morrow K-8, is about 1.3 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Pittsburgh Perry High School. By average proficiency, Pittsburgh Perry High School is 5th among 7 schools close by.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 430, 18% above the 363 of 2020-21. Students per teacher rose from 9.3 in 2020-21 to 10.4 in 2024-25.
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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 Perry High SchoolHow many students attend Pittsburgh Perry High School?
Pittsburgh Perry High School enrolls approximately 430 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Pittsburgh Perry High School serve?
Pittsburgh Perry High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Pittsburgh Perry High School have?
Pittsburgh Perry High School employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Pittsburgh Perry High School?
Student demographics at Pittsburgh Perry High School are roughly 11% White, 4% Hispanic, 74% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Pittsburgh Perry High School?
Pittsburgh Perry High School is overseen by Pittsburgh SD in Allegheny County.
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