Pittsburgh Westinghouse

Pittsburgh Westinghouse operates as a tight-knit secondary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Pittsburgh SD. Current enrollment sits at 573 students spanning grades 6 through 12. That puts it 22% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Pittsburgh Westinghouse records that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pittsburgh Westinghouse has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 104% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Allegheny County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pittsburgh Westinghouse falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.2%; this one comes in at 13.5%, -19.6 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Pittsburgh Westinghouse is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Urban Academy of Greater Pittsburgh CS, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pittsburgh Westinghouse. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pittsburgh Westinghouse at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 30.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pittsburgh Westinghouse's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 687 (now 573). Black enrollment moved from 97% to 91% across the same window.

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