Jessica Abbott

This Goal Monitoring Report by Pittsburgh Public Schools tracks progress towards achieving an 85.1% 12th-grade four-year cohort graduation rate by the 2025-2026 school year. It details the utilization of monitoring tools such as Graduation Tracker, Act 158 Dashboard, and Counselor Connect, alongside targeted support from Promise Coaches. Strategic responses include standardizing graduation communication, implementing structured documentation, and expanding mentorship programs. The 2025-2026 strategy focuses on systematizing Counselor Connect implementation, expanding supports for English Language Learners, and using completion incentives to sustain student motivation, aiming to ensure every student graduates prepared for college, career, and community success.

Pittsburgh Public Schools has launched "Paint Pittsburgh Proud," a multi-year, community-centered mural initiative designed to unite students, families, educators, and neighborhoods during the transition phase of its Future-Ready Facilities Plan. The initiative prioritizes student voice, connection, and community pride through the creation of large-scale public art. The first year focuses on planning and engagement, including community involvement, site identification, and building a student apprenticeship pipeline. This project aims to strengthen school culture, student engagement, and neighborhood pride, creating a lasting visual and cultural legacy across the district.

This implementation plan addresses attendance zones and feeder patterns within Pittsburgh Public Schools to ensure clear, consistent, and equitable pathways for students from pre-kindergarten through graduation. It focuses on resolving long-standing challenges such as uneven enrollment, legacy boundary misalignments, transportation issues, and the impact of magnet programs and demographic shifts. The plan is guided by principles of balance, continuity, efficiency, alignment, and geography, with specific adjustments detailed across various regions to optimize student placement and facility utilization.

This document outlines the Future Ready Facilities Implementation Plan for Pittsburgh Public Schools, serving as a roadmap for strategic development. The plan is anchored in four core values: equity, excellence, efficiency, and access, and focuses on key areas such as updated staffing projections, long-term financial sustainability through optimized facilities, and modernized attendance zones and feeder patterns. Its vision is to ensure every student has equitable access to high-quality instruction, arts, athletics, STEM, and advanced coursework, while addressing systemic barriers and ensuring seamless transitions through a phased implementation approach.

This document outlines a coordinated engagement, outreach, and communication strategy for the Pittsburgh Public Schools' Future-Ready Facilities Plan. The strategy emphasizes authentic stakeholder input, transparent communication, and intentional collaboration to ensure all initiatives are informed by families, students, staff, and community members. Key components include various communication channels like videos and social media, community conversations, parent ambassador programs, co-design teams, and student voice initiatives. The plan also focuses on welcome events for new schools, community sponsorships, and continuous feedback loops to build trust, clarify information, and strengthen school communities, with a goal to identify community sponsors by the 2026-2027 school year.