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Feltonville Intermediate School
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Feltonville Intermediate School
Set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feltonville Intermediate School is an average-sized elementary school, part of Philadelphia City SD. It enrolls 517 students across grades 3 through 5.
Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Feltonville Intermediate School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Feltonville Intermediate School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Feltonville Intermediate School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Feltonville Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Feltonville Intermediate School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.1%; this one comes in at 15.9%, -20.2 points off the demographic line.
Around the school, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household income runs about $61,953, 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 Feltonville Intermediate School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Feltonville Intermediate School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 19.5%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Feltonville Intermediate School has fell 30%, going from 740 students in 2018 to 517 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 60% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.
On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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