West Allegheny SHS

Located at 205 W Allegheny Rd, in Imperial, Pennsylvania, West Allegheny SHS is a medium-sized secondary school that caters to 1,031 students (grades 9 through 12), part of West Allegheny SD. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 40% bigger than typical.

Across the 5 schools in West Allegheny SD (3,469 students total), West Allegheny SHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, West Allegheny SHS records that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Allegheny SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.0%, the actual is 66.4%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Allegheny County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. West Allegheny SHS is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Allegheny MS, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, West Allegheny SHS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 78.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. West Allegheny SHS's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 1,037 (now 1,031). White enrollment moved from 90% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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