Bache-Martin Sch

Bache-Martin Sch, a mid-sized elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD, hosts 614 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Bache-Martin Sch sits 39% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Philadelphia City SD, which oversees 220 schools and 116,230 students, Bache-Martin Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Bache-Martin Sch reports that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 38% Black, 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bache-Martin Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.0%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of +5.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Bache-Martin Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Vaux HS: A Big Picture School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bache-Martin Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bache-Martin Sch has grew 25%, going from 490 students in 2018 to 614 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 18% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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