The top reported proficiency rate is 85% in Science. The lowest is 70% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Marshall Ms
Marshall Middle School serves sixth through eighth grade students from Wexford, an affluent suburban Pittsburgh community that straddles the northern fringe of Allegheny County. The school sits on a suburban campus in an unincorporated area split among Franklin Park, McCandless, Pine Township and Marshall Township, rather than in a walkable town center. Wexford is car-dependent and oriented around the commercial Route 19 corridor and residential subdivisions, though newer mixed-use developments like the Village at Pine have introduced some town-square design elements.
The school operates within North Allegheny School District, a financially stable district that has held its property tax millage flat since 2023 and temporarily eliminated a per-capita tax on adults, offering meaningful tax relief relative to the average of comparable districts in Allegheny County. The district is now undertaking a substantial multiyear renovation of school buildings district-wide, with design in 2025-26 and construction beginning spring 2027. Parents considering enrollment should expect modernized facilities eventually but also several years of construction-related disruption at the affected schools.
Academically, Marshall Middle School shows solid performance on state assessments. In English language arts, students met or exceeded proficiency at a rate well above the midpoint among county districts. In math, proficiency stood at about seven in ten students, also above county midpoint. Science proficiency, from the most recent year available, was notably high. Overall, the school's proficiency index places it in the top quartile among tested schools in Allegheny County. These results reflect a student population that is predominantly White and Asian, with a small free-or-reduced-price-lunch population. The school serves roughly the same number of students in each of its three grade levels.
The community itself is experiencing sustained growth. New residential subdivisions continue to emerge, and a major reconstruction of the I-79 interchange began in August 2025 and is scheduled for completion in 2027. Housing values in the ZIP code are moderately above the state benchmark, rental costs are modest, and the area is attracting upper-middle-class families with school-age children. Major employers include AHN Wexford Hospital, which opened in 2021 on Route 19, and retail and auto-dealership employment along the commercial corridor.
North Allegheny Senior High School serves as the feeder from Marshall Middle School. The district adopted a transparent balanced-scorecard approach with annual accountability data published for each school through 2028-29, giving parents a tool to track school-level improvement year to year. State testing data for early grades and special-education or English-learner population details were not available in the district's reporting.
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