Ellwood Sch

Ellwood Sch operates as a low-enrollment primary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 292 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Ellwood Sch sits 34% below that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Ellwood Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Ellwood Sch has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 101% of students at Ellwood Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Ellwood Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put median household earnings sit near $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Ellwood Sch is one campus in the mix.

Wagner Gen Louis MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ellwood Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Ellwood Sch's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 302 (now 292). Hispanic enrollment moved from 3% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.