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Enrollment
470
Elementary
DISTRICT 442 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINE-RICHLAND SD·NCES 420285000111
Richland Elementary School
3811 Bakerstown Road, Gibsonia, PA 15044 · (724) 443-1558 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 84% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
31 students
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 103 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 114 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 144 | 31% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 23% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
Richland Elementary School→Eden Hall Upper Elementary School→Pine-Richland Middle School→Pine-Richland High School
Based on grade levels within Pine-Richland SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
69.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.9pp since 2023
Math
88.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.4% | 88.9% |
| 2023-24 | 82.3% | 82.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 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 Richland Elementary School
Richland Elementary School's state test result (80.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richland Elementary School this school | 470 | 6.6% | 80.7% |
| Streams Elementary School Pittsburgh | 468 | 10.5% | 88.7% |
| Pocopson Elementary School West Chester | 514 | 2.9% | 85.9% |
| Eisenhower Elementary School Pittsburgh | 524 | 11.5% | 92.1% |
| Pine Run Elementary School New Britain | 480 | 13.5% | 77.8% |
| Clarks Summit Elementary School Clarks Summit | 399 | 5.8% | 67.1% |
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 Richland Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.7% | #94 of 1,396 | #33 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.9% | #20 of 1,511 ▲ 35 | #12 of 141 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #222 of 1,511 ▼ 128 | #49 of 141 ▼ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 470 | #617 of 1,638 | #40 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #725 of 1,528 | #64 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.7% | #959 of 1,531 | #100 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.6% | #1,590 of 1,600 | #150 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.2% | #441 of 450 | #62 of 63 |
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
470
+53 (+13%) vs 2020
-33% since 2000-01, when it was 702
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 470 | 36.4 | 12.9:1 | 7% (31) |
| 2023-24 | 481 | 37.5 | 12.8:1 | 6% (31) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 33.9 | 14.6:1 | 6% (29) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 36 | 11.6:1 | 7% (31) |
| 2017-18 | 469 | 28.6 | 16.4:1 | 7% (32) |
| 2015-16 | 501 | 30 | 16.7:1 | 9% (45) |
| 2010-11 | 485 | 28 | 17.3:1 | 7% (32) |
| 2000-01 | 702 | 43 | 16.3:1 | 7% (47) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Richland Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (469 to 470); teachers up 27% (28.6 to 36.4).
About Richland Elementary School
Richland Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. It is open to students in kindergarten through 3 and enrolls 470 students.
Pine-Richland SD oversees Richland Elementary School and 5 other schools, with 4,553 students in total.
Of every 100 students at Richland Elementary School, about 82 are White. Other students are 10% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 32%.
The school had 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.9:1. That is in line with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The school reported 7% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is lower than the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County.
Richland Elementary School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 84% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Richland Elementary School would score about 74.8%. It scores 80.7%, 6.0 points above that figure.
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 roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county has 277 public schools and about 141,392 students.
Eden Hall Upper Elementary School sits about 0.2 miles from Richland Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Richland Elementary School places 1st of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 417 (2020-21) to 470 (2024-25). There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.9:1) than in 2020-21 (11.6:1).
The allk12 page for Richland Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Pine-Richland SD
- Pine-Richland High SchoolHigh · 1,449 students
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 1,076 students
- Pine-Richland Middle SchoolMiddle · 703 students
- Wexford Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Hance Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 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
- Hance Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
- Poff Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
Other Richland Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 12 states are named Richland Elementary. Richland Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 16.
- Richland Elementary SchoolJohnstown, PA · 831 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolQuakertown, PA · 327 students
- Richland ElementaryMemphis, TN · 907 students
- Richland ElementarySan Marcos, CA · 883 students
- Richland Elementary SchoolCrest Hill, IL · 774 students
Nearby schools
- Eden Hall Upper Elementary School0.2 mi · 1,076
- Hance Elementary School2.0 mi · 406
- Mars Area SHS2.7 mi · 1,044
- Mars Area Middle School2.9 mi · 563
- Mars Area Centennial School2.9 mi · 627
- Pine-Richland Middle School3.0 mi · 703
Frequently asked questions
About Richland Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Richland Elementary School?
Richland Elementary School enrolls approximately 470 students in grades KG-03.
Is Richland Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Richland Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-03.
How many teachers does Richland Elementary School have?
Richland Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Richland Elementary School?
Student demographics at Richland Elementary School are roughly 82% White, 3% Hispanic, 0% Black, 10% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Richland Elementary School in?
Richland Elementary School is part of Pine-Richland SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.