Catalyst Academy CS

A public school district in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with 1 operational school in 2024–25.

The district in 2024–25

315
Students enrolled: 26
Teachers, full-time equivalent: Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.; 43
All staff, full-time equivalent: $20,360
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023: Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.

How this compares

Students enrolled: 315 in 2024–25: Ranks 13,178th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 643rd of 777 in Pennsylvania. Larger than 25% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $20,360 in fiscal year 2023: More than 75% of the 17,189 districts with a spending figure. Current spending leaves out buildings and debt, and a district of a few pupils can spend far more per pupil than any large one.

Spending and revenue

Catalyst Academy CS spent $20,360 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $23,600 in fiscal year 2021

Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics — School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal year 2005 onwards

The figures behind this chart

Catalyst Academy CS spent $20,360 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $23,600 in fiscal year 2021. Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.
Fiscal year	Spending per pupil	Current expenditure	Membership
FY2023	$20,360	$5.0 million	247
FY2022	$20,011	$3.6 million	180
FY2021	$23,600	$2.2 million	95

Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023

Revenue to Catalyst Academy CS by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source	Revenue	Share of total
Federal	$485.0 thousand	9.2%
State	$17.0 thousand	0.3%
Local	$4.7 million	90.4%
Total	$5.2 million

Federal, state and local revenue as the F-33 records them. Each share is of the survey’s total revenue, so a part withheld does not inflate the others.

The district’s schools

1 operational school, A to Z.

2 more columns on a wider screen

Schools in Catalyst Academy CS
School	City	Level	Students
Catalyst Academy CS	Pittsburgh	Elementary	315

The district’s entry

Status: Open
Type: Independent charter district
Charter status: LEA for federal programs
Grades: Kindergarten to Grade 5
NCES district ID: 4200904

Elsewhere

Public schools in Pennsylvania — enrollment, teachers and spending across the state, against the nation.
Every school district in Pennsylvania — A to Z, each with its page.
Pennsylvania on the American Factbook — the state’s entry, across every hub.

Sources

Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2021 to 2023
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal years 2021 to 2023.

Data retrieved September 25, 2026