Shaler Area MS

As a reasonably sized middle school in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, Shaler Area MS teaches 589 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Shaler Area SD.

Within Shaler Area SD, which oversees 7 schools and 3,800 students, Shaler Area MS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Shaler Area MS logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Shaler Area MS lists 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Shaler Area MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.0%, the actual is 47.2%, a residual of -12.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Allegheny County put 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%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Shaler Area MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Marzolf Primary Sch, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Shaler Area MS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 699 students in 2018 compared to 589 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window.

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