Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences

Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences operates as a mid-sized junior high in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run under Philadelphia City SD. Current enrollment sits at 543 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences is among them.

On the student-mix side, Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Black, 4% Asian, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 102% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.9%; Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences posts 13.3%, -20.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Philadelphia County put median household income runs about $61,953, 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 Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences is one.

Nearest neighbor: Feltonville Intermediate School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Feltonville Sch of Arts & Sciences comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 559 students in 2018 compared to 543 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 61% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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