Brown Joseph Sch

Located at 3600 Stanwood St, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brown Joseph Sch is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that teaches 441 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD.

Across the 220 schools in Philadelphia City SD (116,230 students total), Brown Joseph Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brown Joseph Sch logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 34% Black, 21% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 101% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Brown Joseph Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 22.1%, a residual of -12.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate median household income runs about $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Brown Joseph Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: New Foundations CS, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brown Joseph Sch at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brown Joseph Sch has shrank 23%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 441 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 21% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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