Cayuga School

Cayuga School operates as a compact primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, operated by Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 360 students spanning grades K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Cayuga School lists that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 22% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Cayuga School lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Cayuga School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Cayuga School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Cayuga School is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.5%; Cayuga School posts 15.2%, -22.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) shows that median household earnings sit near $61,953, 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), Cayuga School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Esperanza Cyber CS, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cayuga School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 15.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cayuga School has contracted 24%, going from 474 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 63% to 77% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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