Farrell Louis H Sch

Set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Farrell Louis H Sch is a sprawling elementary school, run under Philadelphia City SD. It teaches 1,187 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 168% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Farrell Louis H Sch shows that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 15% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Farrell Louis H Sch lists 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Farrell Louis H Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Farrell Louis H Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.1%; this one delivers 35.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Philadelphia County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Farrell Louis H Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rhawnhurst Sch, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Farrell Louis H Sch. On composite proficiency, Farrell Louis H Sch comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Farrell Louis H Sch's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,116 (now 1,187). The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 15% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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