NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Allison Park, PA

Compiled from official source data by .

7 public K-12 schools in Allison Park from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

PlainSchools home → About this data
7
Schools
2,979
Students
57/100
Avg Resource Index
13.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Allison Park has more public-school enrollment than 28% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Allison Park lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Allison Park's 7 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Allison Park lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 7 to 865 students, a 124-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 72%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
97th percentile
Teacher staffing
73rd percentile

Hampton Hs accounts for 29.0% of all Allison Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Allison Park-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Allison Park school enrollment varies 124× across entities

Allison Park school enrollment ranges from 7 students (lowest) to 865 students (highest), a spread of 858 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Allison Park student-teacher ratio is 13.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Hampton Hs 60
2. Hosack El Sch 60
3. Hampton Ms 59
4. Wyland El Sch 58
5. Burchfield Primary Sch 54
6. Central El Sch 51
7. A W Beattie Career Center -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Allison Park

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 A W Beattie Career Center 40.8/100
  2. 2 Hosack El Sch 33.8/100
  3. 3 Burchfield Primary Sch 18.7/100
  4. 4 Central El Sch 17.6/100
  5. 5 Hampton Hs 15.1/100

What do families ask about schools in Allison Park?

Which Allison Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Hampton Hs has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Allison Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Allison Park, PA? ▼

Allison Park has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,979 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.5:1.

Other Cities in Pennsylvania

Philadelphia
303 schools
Pittsburgh
145 schools
Harrisburg
40 schools
York
39 schools
Lancaster
37 schools
Erie
36 schools

Side-by-side: Compare any two schools or districts in Pennsylvania →

Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.