Enrollment
304
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·URBAN PATHWAYS K-5 COLLEGE CS·NCES 420084707425
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS
925 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 · (412) 325-4075 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL304 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
10.1:1
30 FTE teachers
STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
291 students
STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
9.4%
PA avg 51.1% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
6.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 9 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.4% | 6.4% |
| 2023-24 | 5.0% | 3.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
8.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Urban Pathways K-5 College CS
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS's state test result (8.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Pathways K-5 College CS this school | 304 | 95.7% | 8.1% |
| McMichael Morton School Philadelphia | 285 | 98.2% | 10.0% |
| Blaine James G School Philadelphia | 332 | 97.3% | 6.3% |
| Propel CS-Northside Pittsburgh | 316 | 99.1% | 13.5% |
| Blankenburg Rudolph School Philadelphia | 278 | 92.4% | 9.6% |
| W B Evans Elementary School Yeadon | 304 | 100.0% | 37.0% |
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 Urban Pathways K-5 College CS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.1% | #1,393 of 1,396 | #128 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.4% | #1,466 of 1,511 ▲ 20 | #136 of 141 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.4% | #1,493 of 1,511 ▲ 18 | #139 of 141 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 304 | #1,231 of 1,638 | #107 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #97 of 1,528 | #11 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.6% | #1,362 of 1,531 | #138 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.7% | #545 of 1,600 | #46 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.3% | #400 of 450 | #59 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
304
-51 (-14%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 304 | 30 | 10.1:1 | 96% (291) |
| 2023-24 | 291 | 28 | 10.4:1 | 100% (291) |
| 2022-23 | 311 | 21.1 | 14.7:1 | 99% (309) |
| 2020-21 | 355 | 29 | 12.2:1 | 100% (355) |
| 2017-18 | 300 | 28.4 | 10.6:1 | 100% (300) |
| 2015-16 | 263 | 23 | 11.4:1 | 99% (260) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Urban Pathways K-5 College CS.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (300 to 304); teachers up 6% (28.4 to 30).
About Urban Pathways K-5 College CS
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS is a small elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that operates as a charter school. There are 304 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 31% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS is its own local education agency in federal data.
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS is 93% Black by enrollment. Other reported shares: 3% multiracial. That compares with about 13% Black among all Allegheny County residents. The diversity index for Urban Pathways K-5 College CS is 13%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 96% of the student body. For comparison, public schools in Allegheny County average 54%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Urban Pathways K-5 College CS outscored 0%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Pennsylvania schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Urban Pathways K-5 College CS scores 28.5 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 8.1%; the prediction is 36.6%.
In the wider Allegheny County area, the median household earns about $78,548 a year, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Urban Pathways K-5 College CS shares Allegheny County with 276 other public schools.
Passport Academy CS is less than a tenth of a mile from Urban Pathways K-5 College CS, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Urban Pathways K-5 College CS is 8th on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large. Urban Pathways K-5 College CS is run as a public charter school.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 355 to 304, a 14% decline. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.1:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About Urban Pathways K-5 College CSHow large is Urban Pathways K-5 College CS?
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS enrolls approximately 304 students in grades KG-05.
Is Urban Pathways K-5 College CS an elementary, middle, or high school?
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Urban Pathways K-5 College CS have?
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
How diverse is Urban Pathways K-5 College CS?
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS reports a student body of 1% White, 2% Hispanic, 93% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Urban Pathways K-5 College CS?
Urban Pathways K-5 College CS is overseen by Urban Pathways K-5 College CS in Allegheny County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.