Penn Hills El Sch
Pittsburgh, PA · Elementary School
Penn Hills El Sch is a elementary school in Pittsburgh, PA with 1,279 students enrolled and a 31% proficiency rate. Part of Penn Hills SD. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Penn Hills El Sch is a elementary school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school serves 1,279 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.8:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 31% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.
Penn Hills El Sch is part of the Penn Hills SD in Pennsylvania. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Penn Hills El Sch has 1,279 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Penn Hills SD (1,009 students). Its 31% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points above the district average of 28%. Compared to the Pennsylvania state average of 46%, the school performs 15 points lower. With a 13.8:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Penn Hills El Sch has 1,279 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.8:1.
According to EDFacts data, 31% of students at Penn Hills El Sch meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Penn Hills El Sch is part of the Penn Hills SD in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.