Dick William Sch

Dick William Sch is one of the small primary schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD, with 343 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

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

Demographically, Dick William Sch records that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

In terms of school funding signals, Dick William Sch records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Dick William Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.1%; actual is 10.2%, a gap of -28.9 points.

In the area at large, Philadelphia County reports that median household income runs about $61,953, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Dick William Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Frederick Douglass Mastery CS, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dick William Sch comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 33%: 513 students in 2018 compared to 343 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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