Enrollment
282
Elementary
DISTRICT 365 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMPTON TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 421140000178
Poff Elementary School
2990 Haberlein Rd, Gibsonia, PA 15044 · (412) 492-6335 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL282 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
41 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 15% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Hampton Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
89.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
93.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.2% | 93.9% |
| 2023-24 | 93.2% | 89.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 71% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
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 Poff Elementary School
Poff Elementary School's state test result (92.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poff Elementary School this school | 282 | 14.5% | 92.0% |
| Markham Elementary School Pittsburgh | 296 | 10.5% | 83.6% |
| Level Green Elementary School Trafford | 269 | 20.1% | 72.2% |
| Wylandville Elementary School Eighty Four | 318 | 19.5% | 81.6% |
| George Washington Elementary School Bethel Park | 313 | 9.3% | 78.7% |
| Wyland Elementary School Allison Park | 358 | 17.0% | 89.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary 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 Poff Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #7 of 1,396 | #5 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.9% | #7 of 1,511 ▲ 5 | #4 of 141 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.2% | #8 of 1,511 ▼ 4 | #4 of 141 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 282 | #1,310 of 1,638 | #118 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #977 of 1,528 | #85 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.5% | #1,289 of 1,531 | #136 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.5% | #1,515 of 1,600 | #131 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.4% | #878 of 1,045 | #56 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
282
-24 (-8%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 440
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 282 | 20.6 | 13.7:1 | 15% (41) |
| 2023-24 | 316 | 21.8 | 14.5:1 | 13% (41) |
| 2022-23 | 314 | 21.8 | 14.4:1 | 10% (31) |
| 2020-21 | 306 | 20 | 15.3:1 | 9% (28) |
| 2017-18 | 295 | 20.2 | 14.6:1 | 9% (28) |
| 2015-16 | 273 | 18 | 15.2:1 | 12% (33) |
| 2010-11 | 320 | 21 | 15.2:1 | 10% (32) |
| 2000-01 | 350 | 24 | 14.6:1 | 5% (17) |
| 1990-91 | 440 | 27 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Poff Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (295 to 282); teachers up 2% (20.2 to 20.6).
About Poff Elementary School
Poff Elementary School is the name of a low-enrollment elementary school in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. Total enrollment is 282 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5. That is 36% below the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Federal data list 5 schools in Hampton Township SD, with 2,567 students enrolled.
By race and ethnicity, Poff Elementary School is 92% White. Other groups include 2% Asian and 2% Hispanic. The county population is about 76% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 15, compared with 70 nationally.
Poff Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1, with 20.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 13.1:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 15% at Poff Elementary School. Across public schools in Allegheny County, the average is 54%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Poff Elementary School outscored 99%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Pennsylvania with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 71.4%. Poff Elementary School posts 92.0%, 20.6 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Allegheny County show median household income comes to about $78,548, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 277 public schools in the county, enrolling about 141,392, Poff Elementary School among them.
Poff Elementary School's nearest public school is Hampton Middle School (about 1.4 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, Poff Elementary School is 1st among 9 schools close by.
Poff Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
An 8% decline took enrollment from 306 in 2020-21 to 282 in 2024-25. The ratio was 15.3:1 in 2020-21 and 13.7:1 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
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hampton Township SD
- Hampton High SchoolHigh · 865 students
- Hampton Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Wyland Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
Other schools in Gibsonia
- Pine-Richland High SchoolHigh · 1,449 students
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 1,076 students
- Pine-Richland Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Hance Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
Nearby schools
- Hampton Middle School1.4 mi · 606
- Hance Elementary School1.5 mi · 406
- Hampton High School1.6 mi · 865
- Central Elementary School2.6 mi · 456
- Hartwood Elementary School3.5 mi · 386
- Richland Elementary School3.5 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About Poff Elementary SchoolHow large is Poff Elementary School?
Poff Elementary School enrolls approximately 282 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Poff Elementary School serve?
Poff Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Poff Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Poff Elementary School is approximately 13.7:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Poff Elementary School?
At Poff Elementary School, the student body is approximately 92% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Poff Elementary School in?
Poff Elementary School is part of Hampton Township SD.
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