Wilkins El STEAM Academy

Wilkins El STEAM Academy is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Woodland Hills SD, with 447 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Woodland Hills SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,128 students. Wilkins El STEAM Academy is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Wilkins El STEAM Academy shows that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 21% White, 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at Wilkins El STEAM Academy qualify 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 north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wilkins El STEAM Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) shows that median household income runs about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Allegheny County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students), of which Wilkins El STEAM Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Life Male STEAM Academy CS, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wilkins El STEAM Academy at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 25.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilkins El STEAM Academy has changed only slightly, going from 441 students in 2018 to 447 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 64% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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