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How has West View El Sch changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
446
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH HILLS SD·NCES 421722000290
West View Elementary School
47 Chalfonte Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15229 · (412) 318-1502 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL446 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
13.6:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
166 students
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within North Hills SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
69.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.4pp since 2023
Math
63.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.6% | 63.8% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 60.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
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 West View Elementary School
West View Elementary School's state test result (69.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| West View Elementary School this school | 446 | 37.2% | 69.3% |
| Washington Elementary School Barto | 479 | 40.3% | 55.0% |
| Hahntown Elementary School North Huntingdon | 419 | 37.5% | 83.1% |
| New Salem Elementary School York | 403 | 37.2% | 72.0% |
| Todd Lane Elementary School Monaca | 493 | 39.1% | 53.5% |
| Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center East Greenville | 466 | 36.7% | 62.7% |
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 West View Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #308 of 1,396 | #57 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.8% | #429 of 1,511 ▲ 48 | #65 of 141 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #218 of 1,511 ▲ 41 | #47 of 141 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #703 of 1,638 | #48 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #966 of 1,528 | #83 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.7% | #815 of 1,531 | #86 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.2% | #1,204 of 1,600 | #92 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.1% | #321 of 1,045 | #24 of 73 |
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
446
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 515
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 446 | 32.7 | 13.6:1 | 37% (166) |
| 2023-24 | 452 | 31.7 | 14.3:1 | 37% (166) |
| 2022-23 | 457 | 31.7 | 14.4:1 | 36% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 443 | 30 | 14.8:1 | 36% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 551 | 39.9 | 13.8:1 | 36% (201) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 35 | 14.8:1 | 43% (220) |
| 2010-11 | 516 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 24% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 529 | 35 | 15.1:1 | 24% (127) |
| 1990-91 | 515 | 27 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for West View Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (551 to 446); teachers down 18% (39.9 to 32.7).
About West View Elementary School
West View Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It enrolls 446 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5.
A total of 6 schools make up North Hills SD, with 4,627 students enrolled.
At West View Elementary School, 78% of students are White. The remaining students are 11% multiracial, 6% Black, and 4% Hispanic. Census estimates put Allegheny County at about 76% White, close to the school's figure. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 38%.
Its staff includes 32.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.6 students per teacher. The average ratio among elementary schools in Pennsylvania is similar, at 13.1:1. Roughly 37% of students at West View Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Allegheny County is 54%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, West View Elementary School outscored 77%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, West View Elementary School would be expected to post about 61.6%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 69.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for Allegheny County show that median household income comes to about $78,548, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The county's public schools total 277, with about 141,392 students.
West View Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is North Hills Middle School, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around West View Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. West View Elementary School's average proficiency of 69.3% compares with 52.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 446, starting from 443. The school's ratio dropped from 14.8:1 to 13.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Hills SD
- North Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- North Hills Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,127 students
- McIntyre Elementary SchoolElementary · 594 students
- Highcliff Elementary SchoolElementary · 519 students
- Ross Elementary SchoolElementary · 498 students
Other schools in Pittsburgh
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Baldwin SHSHigh · 1,657 students
- North Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Pittsburgh Allderdice High SchoolHigh · 1,386 students
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Upper Saint Clair High SchoolHigh · 1,269 students
Other West View Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named West View Elementary. West View Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 7.
- West View ElementaryGarner, NC · 969 students
- West View ElementarySpartanburg, SC · 644 students
- West View Elementary SchoolMuncie, IN · 538 students
- West View Elementary SchoolRockford, IL · 521 students
- West View ElementaryBURLINGTON, WA · 353 students
Nearby schools
- North Hills Middle School0.4 mi · 1,127
- North Hills High School0.5 mi · 1,443
- Highcliff Elementary School1.3 mi · 519
- Northgate MSHS1.6 mi · 476
- Ross Elementary School1.7 mi · 498
- Bellevue Elementary School2.2 mi · 348
Frequently asked questions
About West View Elementary SchoolHow large is West View Elementary School?
West View Elementary School enrolls approximately 446 students in grades KG-05.
Is West View Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
West View Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at West View Elementary School?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at West View Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at West View Elementary School?
At West View Elementary School, the student body is approximately 78% White, 4% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees West View Elementary School?
West View Elementary School is overseen by North Hills SD in Allegheny County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.