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Baldi C C A MS
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Baldi C C A MS
Baldi C C A MS operates as an expansive middle-grades school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, overseen by Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 1,510 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 154% above the state mean of about 594.
Across the 220 schools in Philadelphia City SD (116,230 students total), Baldi C C A MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Baldi C C A MS records that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Asian, 12% Black, 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, Baldi C C A MS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.9%.
In the area at large, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household income runs about $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Baldi C C A MS is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Greenberg Joseph Sch, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Baldi C C A MS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Baldi C C A MS's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,422 (now 1,510). Asian enrollment moved from 19% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.
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