Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Roosevelt K -5
Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 operates as a tight-knit primary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, overseen by Pittsburgh SD. Current enrollment sits at 278 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 443.
Pittsburgh SD comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 19,211 students; Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 reports that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 26% White, 20% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.
With demographic context factored in, Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.4%; this one delivers 27.2%.
In the area at large, census data for Allegheny County shows median household earnings sit near $78,548, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 is one campus in the mix.
Pittsburgh Carrick 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. On composite proficiency, Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 19.6%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 320 (now 278). The White share of enrollment fell from 47% to 26% over that span.
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