South Park Elem Center

South Park Elem Center operates as a roomy K-5 school in South Park, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within South Park SD. Current enrollment sits at 731 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so South Park Elem Center sits 65% above that benchmark.

South Park Elem Center is one of 3 schools operated by South Park SD, a district that teaches 1,864 students overall.

On the student-mix side, South Park Elem Center lists that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 11% Asian, 9% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, South Park Elem Center has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at South Park Elem Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, South Park Elem Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 61.5%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Across the wider county, Allegheny County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which South Park Elem Center is one.

The closest other public school is South Park SHS, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Park Elem Center ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 67.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. South Park Elem Center's enrollment has rose 14% since 2018, when it stood at 642 (now 731). The White share of enrollment declined from 88% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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