Anderson Add B Sch

Anderson Add B Sch, a compact elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, operated by Philadelphia City SD, teaches 339 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Anderson Add B Sch sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Philadelphia City SD, which oversees 220 schools and 116,230 students, Anderson Add B Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Anderson Add B Sch logs that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 113% of students at Anderson Add B Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Philadelphia County runs at roughly 95%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Philadelphia County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Anderson Add B Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Motivation HS, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Anderson Add B Sch operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 29%: 475 students in 2018 compared to 339 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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