Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch

Set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch is a mid-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD. It educates 547 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch records that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, 12% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 35% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.5%; Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch posts 59.3%, +23.8 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Philadelphia County runs 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), of which Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Christopher Columbus CS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fanny Jackson Coppin Sch has shrank 9%, going from 602 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 26% to 46% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.