Bethune Mary McLeod Sch

Bethune Mary McLeod Sch, a reasonably sized K-5 school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD, instructs 433 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Bethune Mary McLeod Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Bethune Mary McLeod Sch records that Black students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the resource side, Bethune Mary McLeod Sch logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 104% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Philadelphia County's rate of about 95%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Bethune Mary McLeod Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.0%; actual is 13.7%, a gap of -19.2 points.

Across the wider county, 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 roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Bethune Mary McLeod Sch is one campus in the mix.

Laboratory CS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bethune Mary McLeod Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.0%.

Bethune Mary McLeod Sch operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bethune Mary McLeod Sch has declined 40%, going from 718 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 19% to 24% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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