Shaler Area El Sch

Shaler Area El Sch, a mid-sized intermediate school in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, run under Shaler Area SD, caters to 870 students, covering grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Shaler Area El Sch sits 46% bigger than that benchmark.

Shaler Area SD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,800 students. Shaler Area El Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Shaler Area El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Shaler Area El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.7%; this one delivers 58.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) logs that median household earnings sit near $78,548, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Shaler Area El Sch is one.

Scott Primary Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shaler Area El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shaler Area El Sch ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 73.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Shaler Area El Sch's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 964 (now 870). Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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