Pittsburgh Woolslair K-5

Pittsburgh Woolslair K-5 operates as a tight-knit primary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, operated by Pittsburgh SD. Current enrollment sits at 208 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 53% below typical.

Pittsburgh SD comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 19,211 students; Pittsburgh Woolslair K-5 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pittsburgh Woolslair K-5 records that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 29% White, 15% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Pittsburgh Woolslair K-5 tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 Woolslair K-5 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the broader community, Allegheny County reports that median household income runs about $78,548, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Pittsburgh Woolslair K-5 is one.

Pittsburgh Arsenal 6-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pittsburgh Woolslair K-5 ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 208 students in 2018 compared to 208 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 61% to 45% across the same window.

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