Pleasant Hills MS

As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pleasant Hills MS works with 813 students from grades 6 through 8, run under West Jefferson Hills SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Pleasant Hills MS sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

West Jefferson Hills SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,501 students. Pleasant Hills MS is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Pleasant Hills MS logs that White students make up the majority at 80%. Other groups include 12% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Allegheny County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pleasant Hills MS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Allegheny County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Allegheny County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), Pleasant Hills MS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: McClellan El Sch, around 0.4 miles off. 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), Pleasant Hills MS ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 52.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 18%: 690 students in 2018 compared to 813 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 91% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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