Blankenburg Rudolph Sch

As a compact primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Blankenburg Rudolph Sch serves 278 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Philadelphia City SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Blankenburg Rudolph Sch sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Blankenburg Rudolph Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%); the rest reads as 4% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 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.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Blankenburg Rudolph Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.0%; actual is 9.6%, a gap of -28.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Blankenburg Rudolph Sch is one.

Global Leadership Academy CS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blankenburg Rudolph Sch. On composite proficiency, Blankenburg Rudolph Sch comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 20.5%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Blankenburg Rudolph Sch's enrollment has declined 39% since 2018, when it stood at 453 (now 278). Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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