Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS

Located at 600 Newport Drive, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS is an intimate elementary school that hosts 297 students (grades K through 8), run under Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS is a school of Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS records that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 43% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Allegheny County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Allegheny County put median household income runs about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

The closest other public school is Howe El Sch, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania CS's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 318 (now 297). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 55% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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