Clemente Roberto MS

Clemente Roberto MS operates as an intimate 6-8 campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 259 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 56% leaner than typical.

Clemente Roberto MS is one of 220 schools operated by Philadelphia City SD, a district that instructs 116,230 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Clemente Roberto MS lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 37% Black. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Clemente Roberto MS logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Philadelphia County (around 95%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clemente Roberto MS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.0%; Clemente Roberto MS posts 5.0%, -39.0 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Clemente Roberto MS is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Nearest neighbor: The Linc, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clemente Roberto MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clemente Roberto MS at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 15.3%.

Clemente Roberto MS operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 40%: 429 students in 2018 compared to 259 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 33% to 37%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.