Enrollment
237
Elementary
DISTRICT 326 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOON AREA SD·NCES 421583007577
Richard J. Hyde Elementary School
110 Wallridge Dr, Moon Township, PA 15108 · (412) 264-9440 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL237 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest 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
14.5:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
215 students
DISTRICT 33% · 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 | 46 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 13% smaller than its 4th grade class (53).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
Richard J. Hyde Elementary School→Moon Area Lower Middle School→Moon Area Upper Middle School→Moon Area SHS
Based on grade levels within Moon Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
51.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.4pp since 2023
Math
65.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +8.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.1% | 65.6% |
| 2023-24 | 53.5% | 56.9% |
% 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
61.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% 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 23 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 Richard J. Hyde Elementary School
Richard J. Hyde Elementary School's state test result (61.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard J. Hyde Elementary School this school | 237 | 90.7% | 61.7% |
| Chester Street Elementary School Kingston | 294 | 97.6% | 35.2% |
| Falling Spring Elementary School Chambersburg | 256 | 94.5% | 57.8% |
| Bridgeport Elementary School Bridgeport | 254 | 95.7% | 48.7% |
| Weigelstown Elementary School Dover | 323 | 97.8% | 57.3% |
| West Pottsgrove Elementary School Stowe | 252 | 98.8% | N/A |
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 Richard J. Hyde Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.7% | #531 of 1,396 | #66 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #378 of 1,511 ▲ 192 | #59 of 141 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #708 of 1,511 ▲ 109 | #77 of 141 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 237 | #1,444 of 1,638 | #128 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,173 of 1,528 | #104 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.4% | #147 of 1,531 | #14 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #652 of 1,600 | #67 of 152 |
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
237
+41 (+21%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 237 | 16.4 | 14.5:1 | 91% (215) |
| 2023-24 | 215 | 16.5 | 13.0:1 | 100% (215) |
| 2022-23 | 221 | 16.2 | 13.7:1 | 100% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 196 | 16 | 12.3:1 | 98% (193) |
| 2017-18 | 188 | 16.8 | 11.2:1 | 100% (188) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Richard J. Hyde Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 26% (188 to 237); teachers down 3% (16.8 to 16.4).
About Richard J. Hyde Elementary School
Richard J. Hyde Elementary School is a small elementary school for students in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 4, with 237 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 443, and this school is 47% below that mark.
Moon Area SD has 4,100 students spread across 8 schools.
Of every 100 students at Richard J. Hyde Elementary School, about 48 are White, the largest group. The remaining students are 27% Hispanic, 12% Black, 8% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Allegheny County is about 76% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 67, compared with 70 nationally.
With 16.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.5:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.1:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Richard J. Hyde Elementary School, 91% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Allegheny County average 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Richard J. Hyde Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 80% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 61.7%, is 22.9 points above the 38.7% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
Looking at the county, Allegheny County, the median household earns about $78,548 a year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Richard J. Hyde Elementary School, Allegheny County has 277 public schools.
About 1.2 miles separate Richard J. Hyde Elementary School from the closest public school, Quaker Valley Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Richard J. Hyde Elementary School is 9th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 21% increase, from 196 to 237. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 12.3:1 to 14.5:1.
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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 Moon Area SD
- Moon Area SHSHigh · 1,211 students
- Moon Area Lower Middle SchoolMiddle · 639 students
- Moon Area Upper Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Bon Meade Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- J H Brooks Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- McCormick Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
Other schools in Moon Township
- Moon Area SHSHigh · 1,211 students
- Moon Area Lower Middle SchoolMiddle · 639 students
- Moon Area Upper Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Bon Meade Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- J H Brooks Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
- McCormick Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
Nearby schools
- Quaker Valley Middle School1.2 mi · 425
- J.A. Allard Elementary School1.2 mi · 209
- Moon Area Upper Middle School1.3 mi · 621
- Moon Area Lower Middle School1.3 mi · 639
- Moon Area SHS1.5 mi · 1,211
- Osborne Elementary School1.6 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About Richard J. Hyde Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Richard J. Hyde Elementary School?
Richard J. Hyde Elementary School enrolls approximately 237 students in grades KG-04.
Is Richard J. Hyde Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Richard J. Hyde Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Richard J. Hyde Elementary School have?
Richard J. Hyde Elementary School employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Richard J. Hyde Elementary School?
Student demographics at Richard J. Hyde Elementary School are roughly 48% White, 27% Hispanic, 12% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Richard J. Hyde Elementary School in?
Richard J. Hyde Elementary School is part of Moon Area SD.
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