Finletter Thomas K Sch

Located at 6101 N Front St, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Finletter Thomas K Sch is a moderately sized elementary school that enrolls 607 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD. Enrollment runs roughly 37% above the state mean of about 443.

Philadelphia City SD comprises 220 schools with combined enrollment of 116,230 students; Finletter Thomas K Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Finletter Thomas K Sch shows that Black students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder is composed of 20% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Finletter Thomas K Sch has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 104% of students at Finletter Thomas K Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Philadelphia County runs at roughly 95%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Finletter Thomas K Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 20.3%, a residual of -12.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Philadelphia County shows median household income runs about $61,953, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Philadelphia County's 309 public schools (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students), Finletter Thomas K Sch is one campus in the mix.

ASPIRA Bilingual Cyber CS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Finletter Thomas K Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Finletter Thomas K Sch's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 715 (now 607). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 12% to 20%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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