Allen Dr Ethel Sch

Allen Dr Ethel Sch operates as a small primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overseen by Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 322 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Allen Dr Ethel Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Allen Dr Ethel Sch records that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Allen Dr Ethel Sch records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 102% of students at Allen Dr Ethel Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Allen Dr Ethel Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.8%; actual is 11.3%, a gap of -22.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) logs that median household income runs about $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Allen Dr Ethel Sch is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

The closest other public school is Rhodes E Washington Sch, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Allen Dr Ethel Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 9.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 28%: 450 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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