Duckrey Tanner Sch

Duckrey Tanner Sch is a moderately sized primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD. The school enrolls 418 students in grades K through 8.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Duckrey Tanner Sch lists that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 101% of students at Duckrey Tanner Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Duckrey Tanner Sch is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.3%; Duckrey Tanner Sch posts 14.6%, -19.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Philadelphia County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Duckrey Tanner Sch is one.

HS of Engineering & Science is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Duckrey Tanner Sch. On composite proficiency, Duckrey Tanner Sch comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.7%.

Duckrey Tanner Sch operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 37%: 660 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 2% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.