Steel Valley SHS

Steel Valley SHS is one of the small 9-12 campuss in Munhall, Pennsylvania, run under Steel Valley SD, with 415 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 44% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Steel Valley SHS is one of 4 schools operated by Steel Valley SD, a district that enrolls 1,409 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Steel Valley SHS records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 37% Black, 13% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Steel Valley SHS has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at Steel Valley SHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Allegheny County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Steel Valley SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Allegheny County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Steel Valley SHS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Steel Valley MS, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Steel Valley SHS at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 31.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Steel Valley SHS has ticked down 12%, going from 471 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 57% to 42%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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