Discovery CS

Discovery CS operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Discovery CS. Current enrollment sits at 626 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% above the state mean of about 443.

Operationally, Discovery CS answers to Discovery CS, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Discovery CS lists that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Discovery CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Discovery CS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,953, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Discovery CS is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Nearest neighbor: Inquiry CS, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Discovery CS comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. Discovery CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Discovery CS has contracted 15%, going from 734 students in 2018 to 626 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Discovery CS typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.